The number of young people under 15 killed on the roads has fallen by a massive 75 per cent. The number of child murders has remained more or less constant for the past 30 years.
The writer did admit that young people are more "mug-worthy" nowadays: "Ironically, the phones that we give our children so we can constantly check that they are safe have made them more of a target for violence."
Blame the mobiles.
The Guardian went back further in time ... raiding youth charity Rainer's archives from 200 years ago. It scared itself with the thought that debates and ideas about youth crime have changed "frighteningly little". It quoted the Reverend Sydney Turner: "We must strike deeper, and at the roots and sources of the evil, interfering with the young criminal himself at an earlier and less hardened stage of his career; compelling careless and unnatural parents to do their duty, and raising the standard of social obligation ... by more general and useful education." That was in 1854.
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