In his speech to party conference, Grayling revealed the party was "working on a range of instant punishments for antisocial behaviour, such as grounding offenders for up to a month or making them do community punishments such as cleaning up local parks".
Grayling also pledged to "call time on the drinks that fuel antisocial behaviour".
"Local parks and local estates are blighted by gangs of young troublemakers... fuelled by alcohol given to them by irresponsible adults," he said.
"We'll start with the problem of 14-year-olds hanging around with bottles of super-strength beers or ciders."
The Conservatives would raise the price of a four-pack of super-strength lager by £1.33, more than double tax on super-strength cider and raise the price of a large bottle of alcopops by £1.50, said Grayling.
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