BBC News - One in four riot suspects had 10 previous offences
You also need to look at making it easier for people to be both parents and workers. We have some of the longest working hours in Europe and they aren't getting shorter. Flexible working is all well and good but when you have people working 50hrs or more a week to make ends meet and travelling an hour each way that doesn't leave much quality time with the kids however you slice it.
Last month the inner city finally came to call, and the country was shocked by what it saw," said the work and pensions secretary.
"This was criminal activity, and it is right that it has been treated as such in the courts. But this response will only take us so far," wrote Mr Duncan Smith.
"We cannot simply arrest our way out of these riots."
He said: "Too many people have remained unaware of the true nature of life on some of our estates."
Many of these "dysfunctional communities ... had become fertile grounds for drug dealers, gang recruiters and violent moneylenders".
For young people in these areas, gangs were filling "a vacuum left by other figures of authority, particularly the family".
This "vacuum of authority" was accompanied by a "distorted morality" that allowed looters to view "an absence of police protection as an open invitation to steal".
"This was criminal activity, and it is right that it has been treated as such in the courts. But this response will only take us so far," wrote Mr Duncan Smith.
"We cannot simply arrest our way out of these riots."
He said: "Too many people have remained unaware of the true nature of life on some of our estates."
Many of these "dysfunctional communities ... had become fertile grounds for drug dealers, gang recruiters and violent moneylenders".
For young people in these areas, gangs were filling "a vacuum left by other figures of authority, particularly the family".
This "vacuum of authority" was accompanied by a "distorted morality" that allowed looters to view "an absence of police protection as an open invitation to steal".
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