Minister for Police and Corrective Services Mark Ryan told Parliament the measures target recidivist young offenders."We are arming the police and the courts with the tools to crack down harder on that 10 per cent cohort of hardcore youth offenders."
The state government amended its bill during the debate, making it a requirement for judges to keep young people who have been ordered to wear a monitoring device in custody until they can be fitted.The Liberal National Party supported the bill but failed to move amendments that would see child offenders treated the same as adults for breaching conditions of bail.
"We believe that the provisions of the Bail Act should apply equally to adults and children," Shadow Minister for Police and Corrective Services Dale Last told Parliament. Queensland Greens MP Amy MacMahon says the bill will further marginalise the state's most vulnerable children. "We have juvenile offenders running around the state committing offences at will, disregarding conditions of their bail undertaking and thumbing their noses at the law," he said.Mr Ryan told Parliament that breach of bail had never been an offence for children.
Objectors to the contentious new Queensland youth justice legislation should not be focusing their attention on the reaction from Parliment, but instead focus on the performance of poor parenting that has allowed this situation to arise.
If a community cannot find ways of actively, educationally & recreationally engaging its youth, particularly during school holidays, they will continue to be anti social, regardless of the laws which are introduced. It will be cheaper to take these delinquents on holidays.
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All I foresee is even more Aboriginal kids in custody and entering the cycle of recidivism. What a waste of human potential this bill will create.
Just fund early childhood education, primary education, secondary education and give unemployed a living wage and I guarantee that you will reduce crime in a generation.
Historically, cracking down on crime has always been the very best strategy... ...for the prison industrial complex.
Ah yep, GPS trackers and more police powers! Can't wait to see who or what they blame these 'hardcore young offenders' on next after literally nothing changes
Does AlboMP agree with this State initiative?
Don’t call children “hardcore” they haven’t even established a national al personality or place in society and you’re saying they’ve got a hard core as per national values and rights; Infact these kids are eroding national values not out of arguement, but out of concession.
Yeah sure
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