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暴力行為などで家庭や学校が手を焼いている青少年を酷寒のシベリア送り（＝シベリア流刑）によって、性根をたたき直し更正させる。こういう手段を中央ドイツのギーセン町がとっていることが、町当局に明らかにされた（1月17日付、AP通信社の配信記事）。
記事によれば問題青少年が送られるのはシベリアのオムスクからおよそ190マイル、セデルニコヴォという寒村である。酷寒の冬には木材を切らないと暖がとれないし、水を汲まないことには手も洗えない。
こんな風に文明から切り離したたところで鍛えて更正させるというのは、どことなく戸塚ヨットスクールを思わせるし、軍隊に入れてシゴキで虐めてたたき直すという発想にも通じる。
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詳しくはこちらの英文記事を ⇒
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22711569/
German teen goes to Siberia to reform
Sentence part of country's experiment on cracking down on youth crime
Associated Press
updated 3:34 p.m. ET Jan. 17, 2008
FRANKFURT, Germany - A troubled German teen is spending nine months in remote Siberia as part of efforts to turn him away from violence, officials said on Thursday.
The 16-year-old had been diagnosed as "pathologically aggressive" for behaving violently in school and attacking his mother, said Stefan Becker, head of the youth and social affairs department in the central German town of Giessen.
The teen agreed to take part in a program to send troubled youth to Siberia to reform in "a somewhat unusual measure, even for us," Becker said.
Youth services are experimenting with so-called "intensive educational experiences abroad" amid bad-tempered debate in Germany over how to tackle youth crime.
Roland Koch, a senior member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats who is the governor of the state of Hesse, has seized on youth crime in his bid to win re-election in state elections coming up Jan. 27.
Punishment and politics
Earlier this month, Merkel's party called for tougher action against young criminals. It has challenged the center-left Social Democrats — a coalition partner in the federal government but an opponent in the upcoming state elections — to consider tougher laws that would range from higher sentences to easier expulsion of immigrant offenders.
The Social Democrats have rejected that demand, arguing that it would make more sense to speed up criminal proceedings.
The German teen sent to Siberia has been living in the village of Sedelnikovo, some 190 miles from Omsk, for six months, accompanied by a Russian-speaking supervisor. He is now attending classes at a nearby school, Becker said.
An official who visited the teen last month to check on his progress reported back that "it seems as if (the plan) is working," he said.
"Siberia is very low on excitement and contacts," Becker said. "If he doesn't hack wood, his place is cold. If he doesn't get water, he can't wash."
Becker said he could recall only two similar cases over recent years but an organization representing youth help groups, AGJ, said some 600 serial offenders from Germany are currently taking part in programs outside the country.
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