Young people who have got into the habit of committing crimes often find it difficult to live in the community without break-ins the law. Some don't even try. The majority end up 'inside'.
Gill Pyrah talks to young offenders given time inside' borstal and on the out ' on community service, about their reactions to their very different sentences. The people who supervise them discuss the difficult task of preventing today s persistent young offender from becoming tomorrow's recidivist.
Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham long wave only