Little Criminals

Britain's getting aggressive in its efforts to root out crime:

The Home Office study suggested nursery staff should be trained to spot tots at risk of becoming criminals when they grow up.

The publication said that infants not "under control" by the age of three were four times more likely to be convicted of a criminal offence once they reached maturity, according to a report in the Sunday Times.

The 250-page report by the Home Office strategy unit, entitled Crime Reduction Review, was drawn up to identify the most effective ways of cutting crime by 2008.

It recommended that nursery staff should start singling out three and four-year-olds who display bullying behaviour, or those with a history of criminality in their immediate family, to identify those most at risk of criminality in the future, the Sunday Times claimed.

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