There are compensations attached to having resigned and becoming unemployed. One apparently becomes more interesting and is asked to do things - like writing this column.
I was also approached by several production companies to make TV programmes about aspects of youth justice. And, after some thought, I decided to make a programme. It will be screened this Friday, 22 June at 7.30pm on Channel 4 (see Don't miss, below).
I elected to make my film in two police force areas, West Yorkshire and South Wales. My reason was that these mostly urban areas represent the extremes of criminalisation. There was a 26 per cent increase in the number of children and young people criminalised nationally during the period 2002 to 2006. But in West Yorkshire the increase was an astonishing 61 per cent whereas in South Wales there was a fall of three per cent. Why?
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