Here's advice from a mom who had a bad kid. Get out of the way. Don't protect him from the police, from the courts, from anything that makes him take the consequences of his actions. The sooner he learns that there are people more powerful than him, who can force him to obey, the sooner he will straighten out. He is smart enough to figure out how to get along in the world. And it is not by being disobedient.
