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Originally Posted by Drummer
If this doesn't abolish the young offenders act, I don't know what will.
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The YOA has provisions for people to be tried as an adult, depending on the circumstances, so I have no idea how these events would encourage abolishing it.
As someone who broke the occasional law as a kid, I would have been screwed up if I would have ended up in jail or with a criminal record that would have impacted my chances of getting a job out of school etc. It's not like I didn't have consequences, but they just didn't end up with me being in jail. I was a good kid, but made some bad choices from time to time as I was growing up.
I imagine there are many other people in that same situation.