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Locking up young people might make you feel safer but it doesn’t work, now or in the long term (theconversation.com)
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[–] No1@aussie.zone 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

There was some discussion on Q&A about this and related crime topics.

The point was made that if you just start locking people up you probably don't help and may turn them into criminals.

One panellist said that stats show that most of the crime is done by a relatively smaller number of repeat offenders, and locking up everyone else doesn't help.

But I don't think anyone addressed the elephant in the room. What do you do with that smaller number of repeat offenders that are committing the majority of crimes?