Life After Crime: Offending at 9-years-old

Nov 14, 2014, 09:48 AM

(Broadcast on BBC Radio Stoke, November 2014)

99 thousand children were convicted of committing crimes in England and Wales last year.

Almost half of those ten to seventeen year olds were punished with a custodial sentence.

BBC Radio Stoke's EMMA THOMAS spent a sparring session at a boxing club in Stafford -- where police work alongside current inmates and former offenders, trying to reduce the number who re-offend.

She met one of their youngest members....