I cannot help but feel that if the moral and value compass of our population was reset, we would overcome this and many of the myriad of other problems that have beset our country. I'm not suggesting the reintroduction of religious teaching in schools, but is there not a way that the "commandments" of each religion could be gathered as  collective and fed into the education system in a non-religious way? If students/pupils were encouraged to think and discuss theft or murder, for example, in terms of how they would feel if this happened to them, surely the message would be conveyed into homes and discourage such behaviour? It would take time, I know, but isn't it worth a try?