tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post115391392849838462..comments2024-03-29T05:13:18.992+00:00Comments on UK Commentators: Tough On Crime ... Part 124Labanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12031578024191117985noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-1153915050733908262006-07-26T11:57:00.000+00:002006-07-26T11:57:00.000+00:00One might guess that being mugged by a gang is usu...One might guess that being mugged by a gang is usually more frightening for the victim than being mugged by a lone individual.<BR/><BR/>However, neither current custodial regimes nor 'community service' seem particularly good ways of dealing with, say, some fifteen-year-old toerag mugging another teenager of a mobile phone.<BR/><BR/>It won't happen here, but public humiliation via something like the stocks or pillory, or corporal punishment are probably better ways of taking the wind out of the sails for swaggering teeny louts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com