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  I seem to recall a few years after I started work, the 'new' school intake arriving with stories of rowdy behaviour in the classrooms, dads coming to the school threatening teachers who dared to enforce discipline, etc.
  
  I'm not advocating, least of all condoning some of the extreme punishments meted out by teachers when I was at school, but unless there is a real threat of reprisal for undisciplined, selfish pupils, they will continue their anti-social behaviour into the workplace - or the world of unemployment.
  
  We've witnessed some dreadful behaviour in the recent riots and some swift retribution by the courts, which in some cases has highlighted the unfairness in some sentencing.
  
  I think in the absence of capital punishment, we'd all like to believe that certain people should be locked up for life without any chance of release and the possibility of re-offending.
  
  The only way of ensuring this is to build more prisons. So many rioters didn't believe they would be sent to prison because of lack of space! Where was the deterent?

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