The difficulty is that we're not simply leaving it open. We're dramatically opening the gateway to that. We're opening it to a whole new range of offences where it's not currently available. The comparison between the youth and the adult sentences is difficult, because the duration of a youth deferred custody sentence is so short that really you can't get much meaningful treatment or rehabilitation in during that six-month window. It's really a short, sharp shock. That's what it's designed for. It's not really designed for the kinds of offences it could now be applied to.
On June 17th, 2010. See this statement in context.