The topic of youth crime is on the lips of many politicians, lawyers and victims. But experts say there are far greater problems Australian authorities need to look at.
“We want foreign investment ... we want high rollers to come here and gamble and we fly them in for that and so that means, you know, don’t ask too many questions about that.”Serena Forlati, an international law professor focused on organised crime and mafia groups in Italy, flew to Brisbane to join Schloenhardt in UQ’s Transnational Organised Crime course this month.
“What I think makes Australia a particular target, or a very attractive for organised crimes, is you can make a lot of money here and there’s a very high demand for illicit drugs,” Schloenhardt says.“If you’re a Colombian drug cartel, you say, ‘Hey, that’s an easy target’. The supply of cocaine in particular is through the roof.”
Syndicates recruit children to do their work because sentencing is less harsh for a juvenile, compared with longer terms of imprisonment for an adult. “It is obvious there is a strong link between situations of deprivation in terms of education and the easiness into getting into these kinds of frameworks.“Minors are often a problem, but they are often also the key to unsettling old patterns of silence [not speaking about the mafia], and so on.“The treatment of minors and more generally youth policies are, I think, a key element to a successful struggle against organised crime.
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