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Sending kids to jail will only lead to more crime

Queenslanders are being told that locking up more children will make them safer. We often hear that ‘Jail will teach kids a lesson’. While this is a simple message that feels like commonsense, it is actually false reassurance, because the evidence shows that locking up children as young as 10 years of age will lead to more crime, and more serious crime. Jail does not ‘teach kids a lesson’ and does not make communities safer.

We all want to prevent crime before it happens and no one should be living in fear of crime. That’s why we desperately need governments to pay attention to decades of evidence from around the world about what works to achieve astonishing and sustained reductions in crime by children.

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