Is our criminals learning? A new study called Mentors and Criminal Achievement tries to find out.
The study is a natural follow-on to the question famously raised by George Bush during his first campaign to become president of the US. On January 11 2000, looking down at a select audience in the city of Florence, South Carolina, where the crime rate is 3.4 times the national average, Bush asked: “Is our children learning?”
For Bush, learning is a lifelong challenge….
So begins this week’s Improbable Research column in The Guardian.