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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: 2) by Gravis on Saturday July 30 2016, @12:37AM

    by Gravis (4596) on Saturday July 30 2016, @12:37AM (#381815)

    No, not even when your 3d printer is actually capable of printing circuits on computer chips (kinda necessary for any version of robot-topia), which will be a very long time from now.

    maskless lithography [wikipedia.org] is already a thing and yes, you can buy small kiosks that make chips, so "a very long time from now" is just incorrect.

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