Youth justice advocates are slamming the Queensland government's crackdown on youth crime as a knee jerk reaction pushed by the police.
Former commissioner of the Northern Territory's Royal Commission into the Detention and Protection of Children, Mick Gooda, says this crackdown is “not based on evidence, and you can’t punish kids into doing the right thing.”
Prisoner advocate and CEO of Sisters Inside, Debbie Kilroy, says the crackdown would help cement a cycle of traumatised children who will be pipelined into adult prisons.