The party would change the way a child’s criminal history could be recorded and used in court. But experts say it won’t make people safer.
Queensland’s peak legal sector body says the LNP’s promised changes to how a young person’s criminal history can be recorded and used in court are “cheap tactics” that will not help make the community safer, and will instead entrench disadvantage.
Legal figures and organisations have strongly rejected the proposal for law changes to widen what is included in a child’s criminal history and have this carry into adulthood as possible evidence in court – some of which is already permissible.. “Changing the law in these ways are cheap mechanisms to avoid having to fund social services properly., what is recorded – and for how long – in criminal histories is balanced with the risk that it could harm rehabilitation.
“This is not a law that is going to make the community safer,” she said. “There is decades and decades of research ... what needs to be done to address youth crime, and that’s dealing with the root causes … at the community, family, education, social, and health levels.” Bar Association of Queensland president Damien O’Brien KC noted that the group, which represents barristers, usually only commented on legislation before parliament.“In doing so, the association has consistently taken the position that any legislative reform involving juvenile justice should be evidence-based,” he said in a statement.And Youth Advocacy Centre chief executive Katherine Hayes said the changes would put more children into the state’s straining detention system.
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