Letter: Being unemployed does not necessarily lead to crime
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: The conclusions that you infer from the data in your article, '70% of convicted offenders are found to be unemployed', are spurious.
Seventy per cent of convicted offenders, who are unemployed, may have elected to turn to crime as a way of life rather than engage in gainful employment. In all probability, there is a link between unemployment and crime, but this is not the way to establish a causal relation.
Yours faithfully,
JOHN TRAPP
Swaffham Bulbeck,
Cambridgeshire
10 April
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