Crime / Politics

Youth worker on suggestions to get tough on youth crime

08:15 am on 29 August 2022

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National wants to get tough on youth crime.

Party leader, Christopher Luxon, suggests locking the worst young offenders up and throwing away the electronic key. But is it that simple?

Auckland youth worker Carly Laughton takes a different view as she considers the same subject in her work on the city streets.

She spoke to Guyon Espiner.