Children to be labeled "criminal" by age 3

WorldNetDaily:

A leaked 250-page report on proposed crime-fighting strategies, drawn up on instructions of UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, recommends training nursery workers to target children as young as 3 years of age as potential criminals.

The Home Office report, entitled Crime Reduction Review, lays out a series of ideas for effectively cutting crime in the UK. Without implementing the new measures, the report warns, the crime rate will rise 8.5 percent by 2008.

Children as young as 3 can be labeled as potential criminals, the report's writers claim, if the exhibit bullying behavior in nursery school or if there is a history of criminality in the immediate family.

"From the simple perspective of reducing crime ... the arguments for focusing resources on the children most at risk are 'overwhelming,'" the Home Office strategy unit conclude.

Eighty-five percent of prisoners in UK juvenile detention facilities have histories of bullying in school, say researchers cited in the report, while 43 percent of male adult prisoners have children with criminal records.

"There is perhaps too much concern about the potential negative impacts of targeting on children and their families," the report reads.

Toddlers targeted for future criminality