Cases involving older youth offenders aged 16 to below 18 can be heard in the Youth Court from Jan 1, 2025.
SINGAPORE - The top three offences committed by young people here in 2023 were shop theft, cheating-related offences, and sexual offences involving penetration.
Those aged 16 to below 18 had the highest likelihood of offending, compared with older youth aged 18 to below 21 or those in the younger range, from 10 to below 16. Correspondingly, the maximum age limit for young people to be detained at a place of detention, such as a juvenile rehabilitation centre, will be raised to 21, as a Juvenile Rehabilitation Centre Order can last up to three years.
MSF said it has made infrastructural adjustments to accommodate older youth in the Singapore Boys’ Home and the Singapore Girls’ Home, recruited and upskilled staff, and worked with educational institutions to expand academic and vocational offerings to the residents. Offences under the Corrosive and Explosive Substances and Offensive Weapons Act involved mainly youth who were seen with offensive weapons such as knives.The Straits Times reported in 2023 that a sample study of, who allow criminals to control their accounts or help crooks perform transactions.
Fewer youth offenders have been placed in rehabilitation programmes, the report said, possibly because these have had higher completion rates and participants were not given multiple rehabilitation orders in the same year.
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