But ALL kids are criminals at 3 years old, they will quite happily steal, lie and cheat to get their own way, that's what being a 3 year old is all about!
I honestly cannot see this coming to pass. I work in Education, admittedly with teenagers, many of whom who have a criminal record before they ever join us, but then some of them have left us with equivalent A-Level working in Finance or Law and some have even gone on to university. The whole idea of crime being 'Heriditary' in some way was disproved over a century, there is no way of telling who is going to be a criminal and who wasn't.
After all, Geoffrey Archer attending a public school, got excellent marks and a degree and he was a criminal. Or is it only a certain kind of criminal they are looking for.
All I'll say is this, I have lost far far more in this life to well-dressed white men in suits than I have ever lost to a 'Yob', as our media call them.
It is the ultimate prejudice, we seem intent on branding an entire generation because of the actions of a few, a few that existed in my generation and all the ones before it. Yes, the problem is more extreme this time, and for that I blame the media for gloryfying the whole 'antisocial behaviour' thing and for making a 'must have now' society.
