You said in your opening statements that the length of the sentence and increasing the sentence will not affect the behaviour of the young person. I'm troubled by that. Perhaps I look at this in all too simplistic terms, but it occurs to me that if an individual is sentenced to incarceration for 12 months versus six months, for that increment of six months there is a period where that person is not committing crime. Help me out. Where is my logic faulty there?
On March 9th, 2011. See this statement in context.