The first thing Scott Burrell tells the young people he works with is that choice is irrelevant. "If they didn't want to be here, they shouldn't have committed the crime in the first place," he says. "You have to be stern with them. Many of these kids' problems started because no one ever gave them any discipline. No one has ever said, 'You have to do this'. Kids need that."
Burrell is project manager for City United, a youth and community project in inner-city Birmingham that works with some of the area's most prolific young offenders. If they walk away from these sessions, they're reported.
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