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"Mr President, I should like to begin by congratulating Mrs Batzeli on her report, which contains sensible and urgently needed proposals, such as the creation of a European Juvenile Delinquency Observatory.
The rise in juvenile delinquency requires an integrated, effective policy at family, school and social level, one that helps pass on social and civic values and that helps integrate young people into society. At the same time, measures are needed to combat poverty and social exclusion. A society with glaring social inequality cannot promote social cohesion, nor prevent juvenile delinquency.
The images of episodes of youth violence in various developed countries, both within and outside the EU, are cause for alarm. What leads hundreds of young people to use violence to draw attention to their problems? Families, politicians and societies as a whole must come together and discuss where they have gone wrong and why.
The rise in juvenile delinquency is a very serious problem and we must ask ourselves why young people of 13 to 17 years of age physically abuse and even kill defenceless individuals as a form of entertainment. It is shocking. Handing out condemnation and criticism is not enough. What is needed is action, so that we do not, in times to come, bemoan the fact that it is too late to do anything, and end up like a father of these young people, who said he felt a failure as a father.
Experts single out causes, the first of which is the lack of supervision and the second is indolence. Without any occupation, school or work, young people become irresponsible. Added to this is a permissive culture with few or no obligations and unlimited rights. There is no sense that society steadfastly demands anything of young people; neither work nor merit is valued.
Some of these young people have been victims of violence or have been brought up in an atmosphere of violence at home. Some feel rootless and socially marginalised, while others copy the examples of violence they see on television. Even children’s games and cartoons cultivate violence."@en1
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