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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, @11:39PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @11:39PM (#381798)

    > There is a kind of toxic solipsism at work here.

    Its a defense mechanism. As a kid he was a social outcast. So he reacted by deciding that his social failures were not a function of his poor skills but rather that everybody else sucked. He aged physically, but intellectually he never matured out of that mindset. Whether his parents enabled that or not, he's a cautionary tale for all those parents who tell their children they are superior in the face of all evidence to the contrary. Which is especially ironic since he's the first to complain about that sort of attitude.