Contracts are just a social do-gooder’s idea (From Oxford Mail)

Contracts are just a social do-gooder’s idea

10:00am Monday 13th February 2012 in Letters

THE Acceptable Behaviour Contracts issued to teenagers who have been causing trouble around the Kassam Stadium (last Monday’s Oxford Mail) are just a social do-gooder’s idea.

Arrest and charge these people with breaching the peace and take them to court.

Fear of arrest is a good deterrent. Back in the 1960s we had similar problems and hard, firm action cured it.

The term zero tolerance had not been invented but that is what was applied.

These feral youths know the Pcsos are next to useless and take advantage of this.

The trouble is the equally useless Crown Prosecution Service would not back the police either.

ROGER TUCKER, Kingsway Drive, Kidlington