Queensland children on bail committed more crimes, and more serious crimes, after the state passed tougher youth justice laws, a review has found. 7NEWS
The laws put in place in April 2021 removed the presumption of bail for children caught committing serious offences while on conditional release and allowed courts to fit them with GPS trackers.
“The volume of offending by young people while subject to bail has increased as has offending categorised as serious,” the report said. Atkinson called for the laws to remain in place regardless of the findings because the community supports them. They also warned children may have been imprisoned for first-time, low-level offences “unlikely to warrant a detention order”.
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