What can Australia do about reports of child criminal exploitation?
- Written by Susan Baidawi, Associate professor, Monash University
Trinity Kubassek/PexelsAcross Australia, there is growing concern about young people not offending independently but allegedly being recruited, coerced and manipulated by adults into committing crime. Recent examples include:
- alleged tobacco theft in Melbourne
- allegations of online marketplaces advertising violent offences-for-hire.
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