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Access to Vocational Education Reduces Crime

posted by n1 on Friday July 29 2016, @04:39AM   
from the opportunists dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

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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• Re:Is this a surprise to anyone? Re:Is this a surprise to anyone? (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @12:40PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @12:40PM (#381500)

  "If I could do it, everyone can" argument. That's a bit ignorant.

  So please tell me, oh Mighty Buzz, of the time you broke the 10 second barrier for a 100m sprint. Speak to me about your thought-provoking theories about the nature of space-time. Please, grace us with your world-class singing skills.

  Or if you didn't do all those things, explain to me why not? After all, other people could.

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• He's a Special Snowflake, Except When He's Not He's a Special Snowflake, Except When He's Not (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @03:03PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @03:03PM (#381557)

  Buzz is really proud of how he was the smartest kid in school. Not just smarter than all the other kids, smarter than all the teachers too. He'll tell you how he didn't learn anything from them because teachers are useless. He's such a special snowflake.

  And now here he is pretending to be nothing special at all.

  Which is it buzz? Are you exceptional or are you run of the mill?

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  • Re:He's a Special Snowflake, Except When He's Not Re:He's a Special Snowflake, Except When He's Not (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @04:41PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @04:41PM (#381599)

    I'd say it's more likely that he didn't learn much because our schools are and were utterly useless and without decent standards.

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    • Re:He's a Special Snowflake, Except When He's Not (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @11:30PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @11:30PM (#381797)

      Easy to say. But far from true. You don't get to be the most prosperous country in the world if your public education system is total shit.

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