Negative stories about young people always attract newspapers more than positive ones, in national publications such as the Daily Mirror and the Daily Mail, regional papers such as the Wolverhampton Express & Star, or local papers such as the Wigton News (see p9). The Antisocial Behaviour Act has just given the media a juicy new bone to grab.
The language that peppers these articles betrays the underlying philosophy about young people. "Yobass menace on our streets", "Defiant faces of troublesome teenagers" and "Catalogue of crimes from a list of thugs" (Express & Star); and "Teenage yobs banned at night" (Daily Mirror) are recent examples from a canon that stretches across many decades (see YPN, 21-27 January, p14).
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