From the Desk -Adult Time for Adult Crime: Is Locking Up Kids Actually Working?
About this episode
Adam Shand explores whether tougher measures against youth crime in Australia are effective in making society safer.
In this bonus epsiode From the Desk Adam asks the question. Australia is getting tougher on youth crime — longer sentences, stricter bail laws and “adult time for adult crime.” But with youth detention costing more than $1 billion a year and around 85% of young offenders returning to the system, is locking kids up really making us safer? Adam Shand looks at the disturbing crimes driving public anger, the teenagers being recruited by organised crime, and why tougher punishment alone may be failing to stop the next generation of offenders. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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