The author of the piece seems to mix up three extremely different things, which resemble each other only in that they involve teenagers and classical music. [ED

The author of the piece seems to mix up three extremely different things, which resemble each other only in that they involve teenagers and classical music. [EDIT: spurious word left over from an earlier version of the paragraph removed.] Playing classical music in places where you don't want teenagers hanging about: obviously harmless, no? It harms no one; any teenagers who actually like classical music will just go there if they want to and not be traumatized; it's no different from choosing the music and decor in a shop to attract a particular demographic. Using classical music as a form of punishment in school detentions: unlikely to do any very grave harm, but certainly bad for the cause of classical music since it encourages the pupils to think of classical music as bad. Using classical music to accompany Pavlovian conditioning to break the will of a teenage criminal ("A Clockwork Orange"): obviously vile, though the main badness is in the conditioning itself; also, curiously enough, not something anyone is actually doing. There's plenty to dislike about "ASBO Britain", but this is just bullshit.