A recent poll has shown that almost half of the British public says they favor ending a policy forbidding public disclosure of the names of juvenile offenders.

An Angus Reid Public Opinion poll released on Friday said, in a survey of 2,003 British adults conducted online, 49 percent said they thought it was a bad idea to prevent the media naming juvenile offenders.

It was said by thirty-three percent that they were in favor of the policy.

The poll also focused on one case, the murder of 2-year-old James Bulger in 1993 by juveniles Jon Venables and Robert Thompson. An injunction on U. K. media against publicizing their names remained in place following their release on lifelong parole in 2001, and their new identities and locations cannot be revealed.

The poll further showed that three-in-five respondents (59 percent) believe the injunction should be lifted. (With Inputs from Agencies)