Clause 53 - Aims of youth justice system
Justice (Northern Ireland) Bill
10:30 am
Mr Tony McWalter (Hemel Hempstead, Labour/Co-operative)
My hon. Friend has anticipated one of the counter-arguments to his assertion. Does he agree that the best thing that we can do for a young person who has a strong propensity to offend is to get him to the stage at which that propensity is much weaker? Subsection (2)
promotes the development of conscience in young people. Surely that is doing the right thing both for the young person and for the wider society.