Leading youth justice advocates warn the Palaszczuk Government’s new measures on youth crime will fail to reduce offending, and will instead push children further to the margins.
"GPS devices don't prevent crime, all they do is tell the police in a snapshot where somebody was at a particular time," said Former Queensland Law Society president Bill Potts.
"It's something that might make the public feel good, but which doesn't necessarily prevent crime,” said Mr Potts, suggesting the Government instead address the underlying causes of youth offending.
Former co-commissioner of the Northern Territory's Royal Commission into the Detention and Protection of Children, Mick Gooda, said the punitive measures were reactionary and not based in evidence.
“When decisions are made in a knee-jerk way, it doesn't produce sustainable outcomes for anyone," Mr Gooda said.