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jail chaplain Peter Norden warns against minimum teen sentences,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
The state government wants statutory two-year minimum sentences for 16- and 17-year-olds convicted of crimes involving gross violence, such as stomping on the head of someone already unconscious.
But Peter Norden, who was the senior chaplain at Pentridge Prison for seven years and is now a vice chancellor's fellow at the Melbourne Law School, has condemned the policy.
The proposal also flies in the face of recommendations made by the president of the Children's Court just one year ago.
Mr Norden said for more than 40 years he had seen the importance of judges making individual assessments when punishing young people. away that flexibility is a potential greater harm, in setting vulnerable young people on a life of crime,'' he said today.
Mr Norden said the role of the Children's Court must be protected.
is not about being soft on crime,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it is about being smart in response to complex human behaviour,'' he said.
But Attorney-General Robert Clark said the community was fed up with extreme violence.
community is sick and tired of the sort of gross violence offences that they see on their television screens coming from CCTV footage of innocent victims walking home from railway stations . being set upon by gangs,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], being beaten to a pulp,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], being stomped on while unconscious,'' he told reporters.
sort of premeditated and gross violence cannot be tolerated.''
Mr Clark said judges would still be able to rule in some exceptional cases that the minimum two-year sentence would not apply,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
The Sentencing Advisory Council would report to the government on what exact elements of a crime would constitute gross violence and what could be classified as exceptional circumstances,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
Children's Court president Judge Paul Grant also said there is no simple connection between locking youths up and stopping offending behaviour.
And far from calling for harsher sentencing of youths,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Children's Court president Judge Paul Grant called for action to ease the pressure on the system.
"With the increasing number of young people in our cells each day and the increasing numbers in the remand section of the youth justice facility at Parkville, the development of (a bail support) program would seem to be a priority,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," he said in the court's annual report last year.
The Herald Sun has revealed that Victoria's juvenile justice system is bursting at the seams,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
In just three years,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], there was a 36 per cent jump in the number of youths in detention.
Some are being detained while awaiting trial,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
The proposed mandatory sentencing policy, details of which were reported last night, would affect youths whose violent crimes were intentional or reckless and caused serious injury,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and where there was gross violence,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], such as the use of weapons,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], gang attacks or a continuation of an attack on incapacitated victims.
Victorian Attorney-General Robert Clark has asked the Sentencing Advisory Board for advice on the plan.
In 2007,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Victoria was recorded as having the lowest rate of youth detention in the country. Just 9 per cent of Victorian youths aged 10-17 were sentenced to juvenile corrections institutions.
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