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October 29, 2005
Nine out of 10 teenage criminals reoffend
The Guardian, October 28, 2005
The government's community punishment programme to tackle the most hardcore teenage criminals has a failure rate of 91%, it was revealed yesterday. The Youth Justice Board, which runs the intensive supervision and surveillance programme, admitted yesterday that the reconviction rate was "very high". But it insisted the £98m scheme was working because those who had been on it were committing fewer and less serious crimes.
Posted by Emma at October 29, 2005 03:43 PM
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