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Access to Vocational Education Reduces Crime

posted by n1 on Friday July 29 2016, @04:39AM   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @02:55PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @02:55PM (#381551)

    Why print one yourself if you only need it for an hour. Just hire someone else's robot.

    Maybe your building, street, town or whatever can all chip in 20c and get a robot drain cleaner. There goes a large percentage of plumbing jobs.

    Of course robots will never be able to join pipes together. It would take some kind of magic welding robot. And we all know how far into the future that will be.