You will forgive me if I point out that all this intellectualising of the problem makes no difference to you if you're out late in Croydon and get stabbed to death.
It makes no odds if the person is from a disadvantaged background.

Been around since the teddy boys. Where did we import them from?

Lend me a Tenor

31 May to 3 June 2017

John McIntosh Arts Centre
London Oratory School
SW6 1RX

with Superfly in the chorus
[Link]

Local gangs and knives or weapons haven't been seen since then or the mod v rocker days. The fact there's a drugs business that leads to selling harder drugs within it and peer pressure to take part makes it all the more deplorable.

The disappointing result of this is that white British move away from the area but they'd stay if the gangs were white and I'd bet it'd be tackled by locals and probably police.

COYP

Ursa Minor

Kayla did Anfield & Old Trafford

What did their sense of right and wrong tell them about carrying bike chains, flick knifes and broken bottles? Right or wrong? All this stuff is wrong: teddy boys, mods and rockers (I was a mod), football hooligans, gangs, political extremists, religious extremists, rioters. Individuals make choices and carry out actions regardless of their upbringing and circumstances, it is their personal responsibility not to do bad things.

Edited by hedgehog50 (24 Nov 2017 1.41pm)

We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. [Orwell]

Well, there are degrees of wrong I'd say.
Having a weapon and using it to kill someone for nothing are a little different, I'm sure you would agree.