Bob's model is one of curing violence. People have within them frightening figments, and he saw his role as that of removing these figments. To affect a cure you need to allow violent offenders to say that the hurt is over, otherwise the trauma of childhood will paralyse the thinking. This results in a gross distortion in perception, with infantile reactions which have no place in adult life. Underpinning this work is the importance of human rights - in a therapeutic way rather than just as woolly notions.
Coercion destroys self-respect and initiative and removes the potential for growth.
The High Scope project in the USA illustrates the benefits of early positive intervention with nursery-age children. Viiolence is a learned disease. In problem-solving policing they look at what causes offender to become criminals. Some of this work they do in partnership with councils and with schools, thinking hard about how they get the message across. We need to teach children what is right and wrong, about keeping oneself safe.