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<p>The last survey carried out by the Home Office into the characteristics of children
and young people involved in crime was the Offending, Crime and Justice Survey in
2006 which was a self-report survey of a sample of young people aged 10 to 25 asking
about their involvement in offending, drug use and anti-social behaviour.</p><p>However,
the Home Office makes use of a wide range of survey, academic and administrative data
to inform government’s understanding of the risk factors for children and young people
becoming involved in crime. This evidence has been drawn upon to inform the Modern
Crime Prevention Strategy (2016) and, more recently, the Serious Violence Strategy
(2018). Deprivation has been identified as one a wide range of risk factors associated
with involvement in offending. However, these risks interact in complex ways to make
some people more prone to involvement in crime than others. The evidence also shows
that not all those who grow up in poverty go on to become offenders, and not all offenders
come from deprived backgrounds.</p>
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