http://www.sundayherald.com/53944
Liam McDougall
"THE Scottish Executive's high- profile drive against youth offending is doomed to fail and will actually increase the number of teenage tearaways on the streets, claim researchers. The findings from an Edinburgh University study claims that at every level of the juvenile justice network - from the police to the children's hearing system - youngsters are being failed by the structures that are in place to break patterns of offending. The study by Dr Lesley McAra and Susan McVie, due to be published in the European Journal Of Criminology later this year, mapped the offending behaviour of 4000 youths aged between 14 and 16 in Edinburgh."
