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New focus and early action key to beating youth crime

New measures to tackle youth offending early and focus attention on the teenagers most likely to commit serious and repeated crime are to be launched soon in Glasgow.

Scotland’s largest city will make the move after being convinced by pilots in five areas of the country.

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