| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - The welfare and best interests of a child or adolescent come first, by law; obviously, the overriding concern is that the young offender stops committing crime and punishment is a valuable tool in achieving this ??? but it is not always essential and it is not always used; and the judiciary will always look to use anything that works to get offenders back on the ???straight and narrow???.
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