Do you believe if more kids attended school, there would be less crime? Studying the relationship between school attendance and crime goes back more than 200 years. Many people believe that better crime control measures should involve vigorous police work, or strict law enforcement.
For thousands of years and long before the mandatory school attendance, crime has prevailed. Violence and even references to youth gangs are all refferenced in the Holy Bible.
American’s views about education and crime were referenced in a January 10, 1931 Literary Digest, article entitled “What We Shall Be Like in 1950.”. The article mentioned prophecies made by the National Education Association adapted from a publication called Tomorrow’s Business, which said, “Crime will be virtually abolished by transferring to the preventive processes of the school and education the problems of conduct which police, courts, and prisons now remedy when it is too late.”
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