Bullying among young people in England:

Then there are the not-brainies who dress lavishly, fling their money about, tend to be brash, unmannerly, anti-adult and fashionable on the fringe of delinquency. Cheeking the cops as a teenager can and sometimes does progress into knocking old women shop-keepers on the head and stealing the till and even armed bank robberies.

Here's an example of a Bullying Thesis Statement. Young people mixed up in such crimes, conscious of press headlines and the support and moral approval of their teenager friends, have no sense of wrong-doing, but rather a sense of heroism at having revenged themselves on society.