MarkUk, I know what you're saying but there must be more creative and practical solutions than allowing us all to sleep walk into a surveillance society, lulled into the false sense of security that this provides. I work with high risk offenders, some of whom are undoubtedly (and almost inevitably) the result of ''parents who don't do parenting'' -your ''unsocialised kids'', all grown up. Just containing and monitoring (school kids or offenders) is only ever going to be a short-term solution. In the long term we need to support and enable people to parent better or else these ''unsocialised kids'' are going to be bringing their own kids into the world. And the beat goes on...