“Crime is valuable feedback about what childhood in a society means, about its education, economics and culture—about whether this is a society that works or not.”

Lean Logic, (2016), p. 276, entry on Lean Law and Order http://www.flemingpolicycentre.org.uk/lean-logic-surviving-the-future/

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