{"id":419,"date":"2005-06-17T11:16:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-17T17:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2005\/06\/17\/3-year-old-criminals-and-the-false-positive-problem-2\/"},"modified":"2005-06-17T11:16:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-17T17:16:00","slug":"3-year-old-criminals-and-the-false-positive-problem-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2005\/06\/17\/3-year-old-criminals-and-the-false-positive-problem-2\/","title":{"rendered":"3-year-old criminals and the false positive problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <em><a href=\"http:\/\/wnd.com\/news\/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44733\">Worldnet Daily<\/a><\/em> (via Ann <a href=\"http:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/\">Althouse<\/a>),<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A leaked 250-page report on proposed crime-fighting strategies, drawn up on instructions of UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, recommends training nursery workers to target children as young as 3 years of age as potential criminals&#8230; if the[y] exhibit bullying behavior in nursery school or if there is a history of criminality in the immediate family.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a classic example of the &#8220;false positive&#8221; problem. Yes, looking backward, most of the people in prison today had some early history of antisocial behavior. But there is strong evidence from life course criminology that<em> most antisocial children do not become serious criminals as adults<\/em> (see, e.g., Gove 1985). Worse still, identifying and treating kids at 3 could worsen their prospects by labeling and isolating them from &#8220;normals.&#8221; Although the report proposed &#8220;soft&#8221; measures such as education (presumably versus hard measures involving institutionalization), how hard would <em>you <\/em>fight to keep your kid out of the special class for 3-year old bullies? How long would you want the designation to remain on their school records?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Worldnet Daily (via Ann Althouse), &#8220;A leaked 250-page report on proposed crime-fighting strategies, drawn up on instructions of UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, recommends training nursery workers to target children as young as 3 years of age as potential criminals&#8230; if the[y] exhibit bullying behavior in nursery school or if there is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}