BYM backs coalition to halt cycle of crime
Aim to prevent ‘a revolving door of crisis and crime that destroys lives, families and communities’
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) is supporting a coalition including police and crime commissioners that is committed to preventing young people being pulled into a cycle of crime and crisis. Led by Revolving Doors Agency, the coalition says a smarter criminal justice system would intervene earlier to prevent ‘a revolving door of crisis and crime that destroys lives, families and communities’.
Paul Parker, recording clerk for BYM, signed a letter published in the Daily Telegraph on 21 August saying that 50,000 cautions or convictions handed to eighteen- to twenty-five-year-olds, for low-level and non-violent crimes, like theft, dominate their criminal records in later life. It said people who repeatedly offend now account for nearly forty per cent of all offenders.
The letter says: ‘the preventative measures taken by police and Youth Offending Teams have shown what is possible, reducing the number of children entering the criminal justice system to the lowest levels on record’.
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