Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Not a pretty picture

While searching for how many individuals go through the Youth Court (to put the 'worst 1,000 offenders' into context there are roughly 7,000) I came across this;



And in case you are wondering, between 2002 and 2007, the number of convictions for violent offences rose by 29% and the number of convictions for traffic offences rose by 28%.

I can't be bothered analysing it but I do like visual representations. Pictures are much easier to carry around in one's head.

2 comments:

mojo said...

Aha ... failing education system, non full employment economy ... too much time on one's hands, minimal skills, no routines, poor impulse control ....

The simplest means of redressing this problem is returning to the goal of a full employment economy ... parents working immediately establishes routine in their children ++++
We are but a small country rogered.

Oswald Bastable said...

Decimation can't hurt either...