A tiny, hard core of
amoral teenagers is responsible for the majority of juvenile crimes, according
to a ground-breaking study from the University of
Cambridge.A delinquent
minority will commit an average of 86 crimes each by the age of 16, with less
than 4 per cent responsible for nearly half of all youth crime. A lack of a
sense of morality – rather than the opportunity to commit crime or social
background – was found to be the most important factor in teenagers breaking the
law. The 16 per cent who admitted having the weakest moral sense and
self-control were responsible for 60 per cent of all the recorded
crimes.Cambridge researchers studied
700 teenagers over five years in Peterborough, chosen as a bellwether location
for its average size, crime level and social make-up. From the age of 12 to 16
youngsters were asked about their attitudes to lawlessness and asked what
criminal things they had done. Their answers were cross-checked with police
records. Crime occurred when teenagers with little sense of right and wrong were
in areas where people were unlikely to intervene – primarily city centres or
run-down housing estates. The
Independent.
So. The Christians were right -
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