MGM·Lion - an objective and relatively unbiased sociologist might look at the rapid increase in heroin use
and crimes of theft, muggings, etc under thatcher in the early 1980s;
and correlate this with mass redundancies, restrictions on youth housing benefits,
and the emerging tory espoused & encouraged yuppie values of "greed is good"......

Even hippy peace and love Glastonbury Festival was hit by a crime wave
of tent thefts and assaults in the early 1980s...
[popularly blamed on an invasion of skint unemployed northern youths
climbing over the pre security intensified barriers]