The suburb of Ishøj south of Copenhagen has been successful in minimising youth delinquency by sending young gang leaders away for two months.
“In the past year we have started to intervene, quickly and strictly, against the leaders of the so-called ‘little brother gangs’. We forcibly remove them before it goes terribly wrong and prevent the whole gang from committing serious crime in the longer run,” says Charlotte Friis, head of the Family Section in Ishøj.



























