Speaking at Teen Rage - Anarchy in the UK?, a debate hosted by Channel 4 and chaired by CYP Now editor Ravi Chandiramani, she said: "The Youth Justice Board spent £280m in one year on four per cent of young offenders, of whom 78 per cent reoffended within a year."
Of the children who arrive on her charity's doorstep, she said: "Their brain structure and functioning changes as a result of abuse and neglect." She also described the benefits of neurophysiological thinking.
But Francis Gilbert, author of the book Yob Nation, accused Batmanghelidjh of "psychobabble", saying that in today's society "we don't have the old forms of social control".
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