As Queensland cracks down on young offenders, experts fear ill-informed public sentiment is influencing policy
Prof Ross Homel, a criminologist at Griffith University, says the detention of young people “makes the community less safe”.“The current incarceration rate of children in Queensland is about double New South Wales on a per-capita basis. It’s not as if we don’t already resort to detention as a deterrent.”“I’ve never met any youth offender who would even know what the maximum penalty was, or if it’s about to go up. If they did, it would not be likely to affect their decision making at 2am.
Many of the Queensland government’s strategies in recent years have been aimed at recidivist offenders. A , commissioned by the Queensland police service, found that the number of young offenders has declined steadily in recent years; but there had also been “a concurrent growth in the size of the chronic offending population”.on Productivity Commission data that found for children given detention, probation, bail or parole, 56.8% reoffended within a year.
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