Switzerland Swiss want tougher measures on youth violence

13 Jul 2007 |

Swissinfo relays the results of a recent survey on youth violence published in 3 newspapers (SonntagsBlick, Le Matin Dimanche and Il Caffè). A professor of education at Zurich University, thinks calls for tougher measures against youth violence are “misguided” and that more discipline in school and at home does not help regarding youth violence. Swissinfo quotes also Christoph Blocher, from the 'People's Party', who said “Parents should also be called to account: from damages being paid, right up to the expulsion of the whole family for foreign children. (…) Figures and experience showed that a high percentage of the perpetrators had a *”migration background"*, Blocher said, with many coming from the Balkans."