John Robertson warns lumping together all children in contact with the justice system risks undermining community safety
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“Conflating the whole response to youth justice to outrageous criminal acts that have been the subject of so much debate, it’s likely to undermine community safety and increase people’s fear of crime, and it leads to a political response and not an evidence-based response.” The number of children under 14 sentenced for offences during the most recent three years in the report – 2019-20 to 2021-22 – was lower than at any point during the previous decade.
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