Through my involvement in crime and disorder issues, I have witnessed young people being transformed into a social issue that can be solved by partnership working. This process has involved creating fear in the minds of citizens that young people are dangerous. Not only that, but it creates the idea that it is OK to feel fearful and to have the perception, ill-founded or not, that young people are dangerous.
Young people have been demonised by those people who want to create an enemy that they can then expend resources to combat. This helps them secure their own positions. So we have antisocial behaviour orders, acceptable behaviour contracts, CCTV: all to solve the problem of being young.
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