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Study Finds Delinquent Behavior Among Boys Is "Contagious"
According to a new study, if everyone else was committing a crime, you would too, at least if you are a boy. The 20-year study showed what every grandmother could tell you; children from poor families, with inadequate supervision and bad friends were more likely to end up in juvenile court. What was more surprising is that exposure to the juvenile justice system seemed to increase the chance that the boy would engage in criminal activity as a young adult. "For boys who had been through the juvenile justice system, compared to boys with similar histories without judicial involvement, the odds of adult judicial interventions increased almost seven-fold," says study co-author Richard E. Tremblay.
Contributing to the delinquency of deliquents since 1997.
Prepare them to be burger-flippers? What? Educationally-challenged juvenile criminals should be given access to the same education as everyone else so long as they do their homework and behave. If they continue to do otherwise, they should be removed from class so that those students who want an education can get it.
I can't believe you would think honest, hard-working, and motivated students should have their educations ruined in a vain attempt to make an intellectual of a criminal. Give the criminals a chance, and if they refuse to take it, putting them in separate classes is the only reasonable choice. Don't force them to be "burger flippers," but if they select that course for themselves, so be it. Society needs burgers, too.
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Come on! That is really money well spend in a study. 20 years to tell the obvious, and they even limited to only boys! I can complete their study in 5 seconds: "and girls too". Every behaviour is "contagious", people do it to fit in. That's no news.
Correlation != Causation