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/^t/The fact of opening the borders, and all the same an easy access to foreign cultures and patterns, and excessive amount of freedom as compared to former years has caused the increase of juvenile violence in the streets. Tearways are now present everywhere, especially after dusk. They have the habbit of beating others without any particular reason. It is not enough to say, that they are exposed to constant violence on TV or at the movies. Stating this may be very trivial, but this sentence carries some truth. The stereotypes in Poland have been changing all the time. Teenager are no longer shown only one side of the world, they are shown many sides of life, and they simply can't choose. They subconsciously need patterns to follow, but they are no longer a generation which was shown the patterns to follow. Now their heroes are film characters from "Natural born killers", "Pulp fiction" or "Heat" who steal, kill, take drugs. That is why they are cool. Violence seem to be fashionable now. "A rising tide of violence" has really become a major political and social problem. Polish society seems to be overwhelmed by the amount of liberty, after such a long period of having been kept in curbs. The criminal activity is blossoming because criminals realize, that Polish legal system is inefficient and imperfect, and very often lets them go unpunished. The imperfectness of Polish legal system makes Poland an attractive market to commit crimes and perform illegal trade.