restrain

A hymn we used to sing contained the prayer: 'Those who plan some evil, from their sin restrain.' It's hardly PC to sing it now, because evil in 2011 is not necessarily planned: it just happens, casually as part of the normality of daily life.  *I read of a large increase in the number of children 'permanently excluded' from school. Even at the age of four children check in for full time education already unable to behave in what used to be called a civilised manner. They have had no restaining influence at home, not even perhaps any kind of conversation with adults.  *A report tells of travelling families (Proper Romanies don't  behave like this) leaving sites in such a foul state, with fringe vandalism a given, that communities are outraged. Restraint? By whom? These savages have human rights, accredited by Euro legislation.  *At a whim, armies of unrestrained looters create all the havoc we are still trying to understand. We watch as police  are unempowered and under-resourced to move in to restrain them. *I am about to meet a recently-retired  nurse from an institution for mentally afflicted patients. It  is now closed, because many such patients are cared for 'in the community'.  His training included techniques for restraint, absolutely vital in cases where wild individuals were causing serious trouoble. Can we continue to allow anti-social human beings to behave without restraint? Is it  wrong to cry out in despair for wrongdoers somehow to be restrained? Or is there only one remedy... to go on singing the old hymn. and hope for the best ?