A two year research found out that releasing young offenders into the community without support was undoubtedly meant to go wrong. When they were released without any supervision it was unavoidable that they would come back in a month. Therefore, they started a research and checked up on 41 youngsters who were released from custody. After a month they would go and see what had happened to these youngsters and find out that only 13 of the 41 had a proper accommodation, 6 of 37 whose case still going on was back in custody and 7 of them was on the run. A ministry of Justice spokeswoman said that it is important to help find the youngsters a resettlement and give them support to find work so that the cycle of offending can be stopped.
I think this is a really good idea. It is important to give such offenders a second chance and help them build up a new life. On the other hand, I really am afraid that these offenders will only use us and continue what they were doing. You will always have people who take advantage of such a situation but we can’t ignore the people who really do pick up their life, who really want a new life. Now the proper question is if we should let some of the youngsters take advantage of us in order to make other youngsters really blend in with society? I really have no idea but what I believe in is that such youngsters/offenders deserve a second chance.
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