Why is youth crime now out of control across Australia, particularly in towns with large Aboriginal populations and or public housing estates?
Well that is because, no one much in power anywhere wants to actually do anything to solve the problem...and the courts are very lenient.
Most of the criminal acts, .....home invasions armed with knives, machetes, and jemmy bars,... stabbings and bashings of residents in their own homes to get the car keys and steal them...are being committed by youths aged 10 to 17.
They use the stolen cars to do burnouts, race, speed, engage cops in chases.
Most of the perps seem to be of Aboriginal race.
Why are they not at home instead?
Dysfunctional families, domestic violence, substance/alcohol abuse by parents...it is alleged.
Not all parents and not all families in the towns.
The law prevents parents from locking up their children at home against their will.
They'll get charged with "deprivation of liberty"....so, the kids just walk out the door and onto the streets.