FACTUAL
Delinquent Britain
Thursday 19 July 2007 9:00-9:30 (Radio 4 FM)
Repeated: Thursday 19 July 2007 21:30-21:58 (Radio 4 FM)
Mark Easton investigates the story of crime in Britain over the last 60 years.
Many of us retain idyllic memories of Harold Macmillan's Britain of the 1950s. But crime began to rise rapidly in the postwar years and the authorities were concerned over what new measures could be introduced to deal with the huge increase in juvenile delinquents.
