Time magazine features Britain's violent youthThe Telegraph
By Richard Edwards, Crime Correspondent
29/03/2008
Britain's problems with binge-drinking and youth violence are held up to the world today by the American magazine Time.
The front cover of its international edition pictures a "hoodie" and mugshots of other young men over a Union flag.
Its headline reads: "Unhappy, Unloved, and Out of Control - An epidemic of violence, crime and drunkenness has made Britain scared of its young."
The weekly magazine, which goes on newsstands today across Europe, Africa and the Middle East, cites a survey by the children's charity TS Rebel which found last year that more than a fifth of Britons avoided going out at night rather than risk encounters with groups of intimidating youths.
A 3,200-word article, spread over several pages, comments: "It's easy to see why. The boys and girls who casually pick fights, have sex and keep the emergency services fully occupied are often fuelled by cheap booze.". . . . . . .
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