Prison for Knife Crime Youth Isn't the Answer
Vicki Helyar-Cardwell
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Posted 21.01.2012
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UK
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The overly-confident assumption that mandatory prison sentences can begin to address teenage offending is naive at best. Prison simply cannot address the complex social problems underlying such behaviour, as is clear from the high reoffending rates for young people released from custody.
