More than 10 years ago, the Home Office showed interest in trying to map this relationship by doing a retrospective study of Neet status and criminality. The plan was to have a sample of 18-year-olds register offending behaviour week by week over...

The revelation by the London School of Economics that there could be double the recorded number of young people not in education, employment or training (Neet) should be no surprise. What is a surprise is that no one is yet making a connection between such "inactivity" and "activity" in informal economic and illegal domains including, probably, violent crime.
More than 10 years ago, the Home Office showed interest in trying to map this relationship by doing a retrospective study of Neet status and criminality. The plan was to have a sample of 18-year-olds register offending behaviour week by week over...
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