School gets out at 3. Parents get home from work at 5:30. That block of time in between is opportunity for the kids to get in trouble. What are the consequences of that time structure? Why is it structured that way?
Which types of parents / families can engineer a solution to keep their kids out of trouble? Which cannot? Probably socioeconomics has a lot of influence: who can hire a babysitter?
We assume getting into trouble as a child as lifelong consequences. The time structure induces -- maintains -- social stratification in the next generation. If the time structure is deliberate, it is quite sinister.
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