vividspecter@lemm.ee to AustraliaEnglish · 1 month agoAustralia's youth crime rates have plummeted despite what politicians would have you believewww.abc.net.auexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up1119arrow-down11
arrow-up1118arrow-down1external-linkAustralia's youth crime rates have plummeted despite what politicians would have you believewww.abc.net.auvividspecter@lemm.ee to AustraliaEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square14fedilink
minus-squarefart_pickle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·1 month agoI will play the devil’s advocate. What if the youths that committed the crimes just grew up and now appear in the adult’s crime stats?
minus-squarenjm1314@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month ago… then it wouldn’t be youth crime.
minus-squarerainynight65@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoIt still means that fewer young people commit crimes than what used to be the case. It’s not like people stopped having children. And if the youths who used to commit crimes are now adults who commit crimes, they no longer class as youth crimes.
minus-squareTriflingToad@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-21 month agoits like the population graphs, they get older but still show up
I will play the devil’s advocate. What if the youths that committed the crimes just grew up and now appear in the adult’s crime stats?
… then it wouldn’t be youth crime.
It still means that fewer young people commit crimes than what used to be the case. It’s not like people stopped having children. And if the youths who used to commit crimes are now adults who commit crimes, they no longer class as youth crimes.
its like the population graphs, they get older but still show up