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Juvenile offending and long-term criminals (Radio 4 series: Thinking Allowed)

This episode of Radio 4's Thinking Allowed series includes a segment on juvenile offending and looks at a new study which brings up to date the stories of fifty men first encountered as boys in an American reform school in the 1950s.

Laurie Taylor meets Professor John Laub to find out what the boys' subsequent biographies have to tell us about a widely accepted linkage between juvenile offending and long-term criminal careers. The segment is second in the audio clip after a segment on dirt and cleanliness.

Details
Published: 
2004
Author: 
Laurie Taylor
John Laub
Publisher: 
British Broadcasting Corporation