Understanding ASBO
In this Youth Crime and Disorder project the story, up to a point, is written almost entirely by the cast, a group of teenage boys, who bemoan the lack of ‘a place to go’ and justify their subsequent illegal entry into what appears to be a void property with the claim that it wouldn’t have happened had ‘they’ given them somewhere to go, something to do. There’s a high degree of empathy with their well articulated situation and the viewer is further swayed by well chosen music and lyrics, ‘I can be what I wanna be if I work hard at it’. However sympathy gradually dwindles when there’s a whip round for alcohol and finally goes altogether when the tenant returns to find his house has become a teenage party venue. Most of the
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