The Fear Factory is a documentary film which looks the British criminal justice system's treatment of young offenders. Despite an all-time high for re-offending rates, despite prisons at bursting point - Britain plans to keep on building and continuing to incarcerate more young people than any other country in Western Europe. The public's fear of youth crime bears little relation to reality and the young are more demonised, more alienated and more easily caught in a self-fulfilling prophesy of our own making...