{"id":6443,"date":"2009-11-27T23:07:22","date_gmt":"2009-11-28T04:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=6443"},"modified":"2009-11-27T23:07:22","modified_gmt":"2009-11-28T04:07:22","slug":"teenage-criminals-no-longer-called-youths-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/teenage-criminals-no-longer-called-youths-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage criminals no longer called \u201cyouths\u201d in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the UK teenage criminals must be called \u201cyoung persons\u201d, not \u201cyouths\u201d \u2013 to avoid <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1231583\/Teen-offenders-young-persons-youths--upset-say-ministers.html?ITO=1490\" target=\"_blank\">offending them<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is not a word usually associated with causing offence, even when those referred to have broken the law.<\/p>\n<p>But &#8216;youth&#8217; has been banned from guidelines on the treatment of criminals aged 16 and 17 &#8211; because ministers think it is too demeaning.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, offenders must be referred to as &#8216;young persons&#8217; in the latest code for prosecutors. The newly fashionable phrase is used 101 times in the document.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have a better idea. How about calling them:<\/p>\n<p><strong>inchoate hooligans<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>scelestious yahoos<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>pimply purveyors of turpitude<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>flagitious degenerates<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>iniquitous ingrates<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>delinquent desperados<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>benighted bastards.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There, I feel better now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the UK teenage criminals must be called \u201cyoung persons\u201d, not \u201cyouths\u201d \u2013 to avoid offending them. It is not a word usually associated with causing offence, even when those referred to have broken the law. But &#8216;youth&#8217; has been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/teenage-criminals-no-longer-called-youths-in-the-uk\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[254],"tags":[2225],"class_list":["post-6443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-correctness","tag-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}