Should 10 Year Olds Be Charged for Anti Social Behaviour?
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Is it okay to charge 10 year olds £500 for anti social behaviiour?
Under a new law, the minimum age for getting a CPN is being lowered from 16 to cover primary school kids.
Yes of course they need to learn right from wrong they can't keep getting away with stuff like that
Only £500? Make that £5000.
And yes, if kids (8-12) are hostile and committing crimes they need to be charged as adults. Don't forget there are kids, not necessarily in the U.K., who are taught to use guns so they could be highly dangerous.
And here's a teen:
They definitely need punishment somehow. They shouldn’t get away with unacceptable behaviour. Not sure of amount but possibly a fine of some sort.
They should be ordered to do community work after school and if they don’t turn up then order their phone provider to temporarily freeze their contract.
Leannexxx ..Our daughter was leaving Primary School when my partner bought her a cheap plastic red little phone that cost £10 & came with £10 credit! This phone was just so daughter could contact us,nothing else.
Yet one of her friend's from her class came to her party when she was 7 with her own proper phone,I couldn't believe it!
janphoenix51 my daughter asked for a phone for her 10th birthday we got her one paid £100 she's now had it for 2 years and put £5 on every month I'll only get her a new phone if this one breaks now I know the kids in her class at the time had the latest iPhones to me that just doesn't make sense for one they are over priced and if someone see a kid with one walking about 9 times out of 10 there getting robbed in my area anyway
Leannexxx ...Me,my partner & our 25 year old Daughter have phones that are worth around £140,we have a small contract too..
A few years ago in Sheffield my friend/ colleague A. was doing the shopping for our service users when her phone IPhone went "missing " she was heartbroken as it had precious photos of her late Nephew who passed away aged 5. I gave A the money for a taxi home after our manager gave her permission to go home & worked on my own,later she text to say she had traced her Iphone through her daughter's account & it was answered by someone who told her where they lived & they were leaving it on the doorstep as they were "Self Isolating"
A got her phone back but gave it to her daughter as she had already ordered another IPhone.
If those people who stole ,YES stole my friend A's IPhone were "Self Isolating"as they claimed why were they in a supermarket??
No the truth is they got caught out & didn't want to show their faces so left A's Iphone on the doorstep!
janphoenix51 agree that sounds like that that's the issue more expensive stuff makes you a target sorry to say but it's the truth
Yes it is ok and the parents should be charged too because they allow their children to behave this way
This is mainly down to bad parenting. The problem is that once the kid learns bad behaviour, it's hard to turn them around even if you fine the parents.
Depends on the behaviour. I've kids who play football right outside mine. It's next to a public carpark and shops. Not safe really as the shops are full of class. The pub landlord got fed and put signs up. For the record the nearest playpark is that close it's boundary walls are our boundary walls. We've other green spaces in walking distance of ours. Dad's lazy cba to take them. Do i think they should be charged for antisocial behaviour? No. Do I think dad needs to stop being lazy? Yes. Especially as you often see elderly people walking to the hairdressers and postbox. I don't want them, the shops, my kitchen window getting hit by a ball
I believe if you do anything you should be named & shamed,sick to death of hearing that courts cannot name thugs & murderers because they are 10+ If they do the crime they should be named,shamed & punished severely...
So many lives lost ..
Yes fine the parents,they would soon stop their children if you hit them in their pockets!
100% it is okay. Young children need to learn from an early age that there is consequences for their unacceptable behaviour.
It’s a tricky one cause at 10 years old can a child fully comprehend their actions. I guess this is really punishment for the parents since not many 10 year olds would have £500 to pay the fine
It would be impossible in this country as we are too politically correct. Some kids are completely different at home that they are when they are out - peer pressure counts for a lot when a child grows up.
Until you restore discipline in schools you will never get children to have a healthy respect for law and order and those in authority. I think this country is going to be in a situation far worse than it even is now if things carry on as they are. The balance has swung too far .... Just imagine when they children become adults - how will things pan out then 
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