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

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, @05:48PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @05:48PM (#381628)

    i would disagree with the blanket statement that "they have options". that's not necessarily true. If you have no computer, no internet, no money, and maybe no food in a town where there are no jobs (unless you're connected) it can be damn near impossible for an immature, demoralized teen to find a trade to learn. The schools are prisons. The whole towns are battlegrounds. teens are more worried about surviving the gang/race wars and gaining power/security in said struggle than learning about some trade or business they don't even know exists or that they don't see any way that they could partake in. I'm not going to fund these socialist indoctrination centers when they can't even train kids to work any freakin' job at all. just preparing them for prison, to be a sycophantic leech, or a treasonous pig.

    i guess studies like these are what it takes for dumb ass politicians/curriculum planners to learn that real world training and skills(exposure to the working world and a chance to succeed in it) is what "schools" need to be providing since they don't have the common sense to figure it out on their own.