Adventure trips for adolescents engaged in anti-social behaviour should be dropped because they can make matters worse and are seen as rewarding bad behaviour.
Gardaí have been urged to speed up plans to deal with the "escalation" of intimidation by gangs on families of drug users.
These are among the recommendations in the report of the Dublin lord mayor’s commission on antisocial behaviour.
The report also radically backs the establishment of a pilot injection centre for addicts.
The recommendations are based on the work of a commission made up of local councillors, gardaí, HSE officers, local groups and others. Lord Mayor Andrew Montague highlights the importance of parenting in preventing and addressing antisocial behaviour. He calls for a raft of interventions for targeted families and urges greater collaboration between state agencies.
The report said parenting programmes were "cost effective" over the medium to long term and that one course, Parents Plus, was beneficial is 60% to 70% of cases.
Source: Cormac O’Keeffe, Irish Examiner, 19/06/12
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