An excellent programme. For 9 years before changing countries & later becoming a corporate partner in the City, I was a criminal defense barrister. No one who has worked repeatedly with criminals can be in any doubt that traumas does leave huge baggage.
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It leaves its physical imprint on their brain. Visible marks. But there is hope as apparently it can be improved to deliver them from what is a terrible condition & importantly protecting their potential victims
Why more money is not spent on early intervention on young delinquants or troubled children, I simply do not know as it would save so many victims & abusers. It does raise ethical issues - marking a child with a scarlet letter? - but so does prison & a broken life.
It would also cost less. The problem of course is the belief in the simple dichotomy between good & evil & the myth of free choice. Evil does exist - I met it as have all criminal barristers - but it is rare. I also met it in the City, an environment not so dissimilar.
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