https://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/09/young-people-criminal-record-life-sentence?newsfeed=true

Good article, especially the comments section. I feel optimistic that peoples perceptions about criminal convictions are changing albeit be it very slowly. I'm sure in a few decades when 80% of the UK has a record people will look back at our times and laugh at how silly and extreme the whole CRB thing was.