Spillover effects of neighbourhood gangs
A new study from the ROCKWOOL Foundation’s Research Unit shows that refugee children’s development is strongly influenced by the areas in which they grow up and live, and it affects the likelihood of them becoming criminals when they grow older. In this podcast, Professor Christian Dustmann, director of the ROCKWOOL Foundation’s new unit in Berlin, talks about the findings of the new study.
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