The recent focus on youth justice has highlighted problems in the detention system, but now a Brisbane conference has heard about a program that’s helping to reduce re-offending. A joint Griffith University and Queensland Government-funded service works with the state’s worst juvenile sex offenders and their families in their own community. It has seen reduced rates of both sexual and other violent crimes among program participants.
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