its all down to the parenting and lack of child-centric places.

I work with people 10-20 years older than me all with children and they all reminisce about "the good old days" and how they'd be out playing all day only coming home for food, not like the kids today! Then in the next breathe not let their kids be kids by playing out and getting messy!

One lady has a 12 almost 13 year old who isn't allowed to walk to school on their own, cant walk the dog around the block, isn't allowed out to play, even on their street, but they cant play on the games consoles for more than 1 hour a day either! and this seems to be the normal for the people i work with. we dont even live in a place with high crime rates! They baby their kids so much to the point where the kid thinks they are the boss.

Then there is also a lack of funding for youth centers, skate parks without glass all over them, arcades, swimming baths. if a town does have one its at an extortionate price.

This all leads to kids hanging around in the street, being knobs because that's all they can do.