"Nearly all" children have been victims of a crime

Nearly all children have been the victim of a crime, according to a new report.
A survey of children in primary and secondary schools found that 19 out of 20 pupils had been the victim of a crime at least once.
Nearly half said property had been stolen from them at school, and one in six had experienced a theft between school and home.
Nearly three quarters of children in the survey had been assaulted.
Children mostly told only friends and family about what had happened. Only one in three had told the police or teachers.
The survey was conducted by the Howard League for Penal Reform . More than 3000 children across the country were surveyed over seven years.
"These crimes are often not reported as children think adults will not listen to them, or the crime will be viewed as too small to bother with, said the Howard League's director Frances Crook.
Most of the incidents were low level crimes taking place in schools and playtrounds but "to children these crimes are serious enough, and do matter".
She said it was ironic that children are most commonly victimised at school - "the very institutions where children should feel safest, set up and patrolled by adults".
Children as victimes: child-sized crimes in a child-sized world.