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Truancy and Stealing
A Comparative Study of Education Act Cases and Property Offenders
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 January 2018
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Truancy has been called the kindergarten of crime (Healey and Bronner, 1926) and it is very common to find delinquents with a history of truancy (Glueck and Glueck, 1950). Children who truant are also frequently convicted of criminal offences later (Schulman, 1928). It is, therefore, not surprising to find great similarities in the backgrounds of truants and delinquents.
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