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Ex military personnel have higher offending rates than the general population, and have especially high offending rates for violent and sexual crimes.
That could merely reflect the sort of person who volunteers, and the reasons for doing so, rather than the effect of being in the armed forces. In fact how do you know that offending rates aren't lower than they would have been if the individuals hadn't signed up?
Compulsory military service brings in a complete different character to the demographics of the armed forces.
[url= http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/jun/30/link-crime-armed-service-forces ]It's not true that we found a link between crime and armed service [/url]
[i]"ex-servicemen are in fact less likely to commit crime than civilians, with an official estimate suggesting that ex-servicemen are 30% less likely to end up in prison than other adult males"[/i]
Well judging by the appalling state of some of the shoes worn by the young Design Engineers in our head office a bit of self-pride, discipline(ooooooh that filthy word) wouldnt go amiss I tellya ! 😆
Generations of unemployment in their family
You know that [url= http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/feb/02/workless-families-convenient-truth-editorial ]these multi-generation unemployed families don't exist[/url]?