I think quite the opposite.
One thing that might help to change them is to send them to live in a village over here.
A wooden house with an outside toilet, which is no more than a wooden seat over a hole in the ground, and the only source of water is from a well.
No social handouts. No one anywhere remotely close to them worth robbing from. Just a piece of land for them to grow their own food on/keep animals on.
Oh, and if they did kick-off the police here would not hesitate to batter them, and convicted, which they would be, they would go down for a few years (not days or weeks) in a prison they would not like to be in!!!!