VANDALISM
Sir.—Every authoritative condemnation of vandalism is to be welcomed: but one is sometimes inclined to be sceptical about the results achieved by these denunciations. At the end of your leading article on this subject you recommend that members of the public, confronted by examples of such miscreant behaviour, should show their disapproval and report matters to the authorities. If such disapproval occasionally takes a summary and temporarily painful form, so much the better. It will probably have far more effect than any steps the authorities are likely to take. It seems that the Welfare State, and much that masquerades as psychiatry, i have undermined parental and adult .influence, created a flabby official attitude of mind, and .induced a general apathy towards delinquency that is a definite incitement to still further excesses. —Yours, etc., M.T. December 27, 1956.
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28162, 28 December 1956, Page 11
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