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The crime rate, especially drug crime, decreases significantly when more 16-44 year olds have access to affordable Vocational Education and Training, (VET) according to a new University of Melbourne report.
Drug crime rate decreased 13 per cent when more people had access to a publicly-funded place in VET. The research also recorded a five percent and 11 per cent decrease in personal and property crime respectively, including assault, theft and burglary.
Report author, Dr Cain Polidano from the Melbourne Institute found that the extra public funding of VET (TAFE and private colleges) reduced the costs of crime.
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Remember Darwin; building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @09:59AM
All of that is splendid and has absolutely nothing to do with the point- areas of increased welfare (i.e.- lack of job opportunities) typically have higher rates of crime.
If there is no work, basic income means squat towards the crime rate.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @10:14AM
If you are getting a basic income, it makes it much easier to move to a better place where they may be jobs.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @01:36PM
And that's splendid but fails to account for every UBI trial ever done.