NO - BOB MARDLE, street-based youth work co-ordinator, Nuneaton, Warwickshire
Some young people on the fringes of society may have lost direction, but they didn't make the world they live in.
It's like a self-fulfilling prophecy: if you keep telling young people they're bad people, you'll get bad young people.
We as adults need to take a step back and reflect on the fact that we created the world that young people are born into and if it's going wrong, we need to look at what we're doing.
YES - AMINA CAMARA, 17, Member of Youth Parliament, Hackney
Some young people may have lost their sense of direction because in growing up, they have seen the way certain people gain street respect, the way they earn money and therefore the way they live and some may aspire to be like that. But I would like to stress there are a lot of young people that are being positive members of the community, for example all those in the Hackney Youth Parliament.
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