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Ladette binge-drinking violence soars by 300% in just seven years

by LotusFlower | March 1, 2009 at 01:20 am

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The term 'ladette' is still fairly young but the young women the term refers to and the behaviours that they exhibit are on the rise with violence by alcohol fueled girls rising by 300% in the last 7 years.

Although adult drinkers still exhibit the most dangerous drinking habits, binge drinking amongst young people in the UK is a major and growing problem in terms of public order and anti-social behaviour.

1 in 3 teenage girls now admits to some 'binge drinking' and these figures on criminal behaviour by young women will fuel calls for more work to support better alcohol education in UK schools.

Young people, and here girls in particular, are being constantly lambasted by the media but although these figures are worrying, the statistics tell us that the vast majority of teenagers are not binge drinkers, drug takers or violent.

Some suggest that a good look at adult society might offer pointers to why some young people feel disillusioned and engage in such harmful behaviours - behaviours that are ultimately more harmful to them in the long run than to the rest of society.

Violent attacks by binge-drinking teenage girls have risen by nearly 300 per cent in seven years in a frightening wave of ‘ladette’ violence.

And while more and more teenage girls are going on the rampage, criminal behaviour by teenage boys is on the decrease.

The extraordinary turnaround in teenage lawlessness emerges in figures that have been obtained by the highly respected Youth Justice Board.

It claims that new research suggests the number of violent offences against the person carried out by girls aged between ten and 17 has increased from 6,000 in 2001 to almost 23,000 last year.

Alcohol is one of the main factors: approximately one in three girls aged 15 to 16 admits that she binge-drinks.

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generaldecay

at 01:40 on March 1st, 2009

You're a man (at least I think so!) after my own heart posting this story. :)

Now, I'm not going to go on a rant about how the Daily Bigot, I mean, Mail, will certainly not water down any statistics on crime (particularly where it involves women). Rather, I'm going to say that this is an interesting piece which has a great deal of accuracy on some levels. Over the next month, I'm going to be preparing a research proposal for a project which will examine, in part, this very phenomenon of the increase in female crime. It's a really fascinting subject and one I've wanted to examine for a long time now. (But I had to finish what I was was examining first, which took a little longer than expected.)

LotusFlower

at 02:37 on March 1st, 2009

Be good to the results of your research when complete!

generaldecay

at 03:26 on March 1st, 2009

Well, if you have plenty of patience, I will show them to you. :) I have to write the proposal, do the costings, get some funding (the hardest part), get a sample, conduct the research, analyse the data, and write it up. So the write-up will probably be available around 2015!

generaldecay

at 01:49 on March 1st, 2009

Related piece.

Fripouille

at 04:17 on March 1st, 2009

"Some suggest that a good look at adult society might offer pointers...."

That may well be true. I haven't lived in England for a long time now, but the stories my sister tells me would seem to bear this out. She is now a middle-aged woman, and she and her girl friends go out regularly and get sloshed. It's the same for other people of her age group, she says. She lives in Liverpool, and it would appear that the city centre is not the place to be on weekend nights if you don't like to see drunk young people everywhere...

Sputnic

at 09:32 on March 1st, 2009

Government needs tax people need to drink less I would have thought the solution was obvious.

Roy C

at 09:57 on March 1st, 2009

Binge drinking is up in the US as well. I once drove a limousine with six young women, all well-educated, for a birthday party. They all drank what seemed like too much to me, and one threw up. Men I have driven in groups exercised the same behavior, including vomiting.

Reeks hell on your body.

During Prohibition, people did, in fact, drink less, and it was because booze cost 5 times as much. Taxation is a good way to control drinking.

jazzyzazzy

at 14:55 on March 1st, 2009

Alcopops started the binge drink trend.along with peach shots.mixing their drinks has a lethal affect on the body.It is life phases some young people go through. Then they get a fright of some sort of other.Or grow up.