Comments on: From the record- youth criminal justice http://www.bethanjenkinsblog.org.uk/from-the-record-youth-criminal-justice Plaid Assembly Member for South Wales West including Aberavon, Bridgend, Gower, Neath, Ogmore, Port Talbot and Swansea Fri, 02 Dec 2011 22:13:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Oxymoronic Contradiction http://www.bethanjenkinsblog.org.uk/from-the-record-youth-criminal-justice/comment-page-1#comment-4845 Oxymoronic Contradiction Fri, 02 Jul 2010 07:51:43 +0000 http://www.bethanjenkinsblog.org.uk/from-the-record-youth-criminal-justice#comment-4845 Incarceration of young people inevitably leads them into contact with hardened, career criminals who's influence cannot be underestimated on what are vulnerable, impressionable young people. I like the idea of restorative justice penalties, especially those which bring the offender into contact with their victims, such eye opening penalties swiftly disabuse young people of the notion that their actions have no consequences. Incarceration of young people inevitably leads them into contact with hardened, career criminals who’s influence cannot be underestimated on what are vulnerable, impressionable young people.

I like the idea of restorative justice penalties, especially those which bring the offender into contact with their victims, such eye opening penalties swiftly disabuse young people of the notion that their actions have no consequences.

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