Children as Victims: Child-Sized Crimes in a Child-Sized World, is released today (10 October) and quizzed more than 3,000 children and young people aged between 10 and 15 on their experiences as victims of crime.
The organisation carried out the surveys between 1997 and 2006 as part of its Citizenship and Crime project.
Children felt adults "demonised" them as perpetrators of crime when they should be viewed as the victims of crime, the report found.
Frances Crook, director of the Howard League, said adults should take low-level crime more seriously, to prevent it escalating into more serious crimes. "The danger here is that adults become concerned only when incidents become more serious, or break out from being child-on-child to child-on-adult," she said.
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