I'll vote with Jacqui C, it is OUR herd, and if the wolves choose to behave like that, then woe betide them.

All the same, it is very hard to determine who is the criminal, sometimes. I've never committed a 'crime' by my standards, but in the long ago I have driven drunk, and so put innocent lives at serious and unjustified risk. But, how about if I did that regularly? Or how about if I was a Typhoid carrier who's only profession was food preparation?

There is also the fiscal cost of crime, like how much fuel does the school run cost the world, just because of a few paedophiles? How about legal aid? Shouldn't that be paid back by the proven-Guilty?

I cannot find a cut-and-dried answer to very much at all, but modern sickly-liberal-do-gooderness certainly isn't the answer, because the problems are getting observably worse. Perhaps, in this day when so many jobs are being exported to cheap-labour countries, one of them should be prisons. Surely China or somewhere would love to give our Western criminals board?
Someone would give Hilda a job, with better company.