The Chance of a Lifetime: Preventing Early Conduct Problems and Reducing Crime suggests that action to prevent conduct problems in young children, such as lying, disobedience, fighting and stealing can dramatically reduce their chances of offending later in life.
According to the study one child in 20 has a conduct disorder, the most serious form of conduct problems. Those children go on to commit 30 per cent of crime, at a cost to society of over £22bn a year. Another 45 per cent of children have mild or moderate conduct problems. They go on to commit half of all crime at an annual cost of some £37bn.
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