How I wish I had known something about restorative justice a few years ago, when one Saturday morning, very early, I got a phone call to say the youth centre had been "smashed up". Sure enough, it had. Beyond the huge stone that had come through a window, every internal pane of glass and every door was in fragments. The perpetrator, Pete - a very troubled and troublesome regular youth club member, aged 17 - had been found cowering under the pool table and had been arrested. I was told he had apparently been paralytic and was now sobering up in the cells.
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