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April 28th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Assisting young criminals with their problems will help stop them reoffending and going back to jail, NSW Attorney-General Greg Smith says.
More than half of the youths who commit crimes in NSW will reoffend within a decade, data from the NSW Bureau of Statistics show.
Most will do so not just once but on multiple occasions, exposing a failing in the juvenile justice system, Fairfax Media reports.
Mr Smith says preventive action such as mentoring and rehabilitation worked much better than sending young people back to jail.
“Your best chance of saving them from a life of crime, and saving our community from suffering from more criminals, is to actually turn them around by rehabilitation,” Mr Smith told Fairfax Radio on Saturday.
He said using mentoring and helping them find employment and accommodation were crucial steps to preventing reoffending.
Tackling drug and alcohol problems, which many young offenders have, is also important, he said.
Half of all juveniles detained by police are using drugs, data given to The Sydney Morning Herald show.
Juvenile instances of murder, assault, sexual assault and robbery also jumped more than 20 per cent in NSW in the ten years to 2010.
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