Trina O'Connor
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124 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 7 Sep
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Well, I think everything should be discussed absolutely.
And it's great to hear Barry talking there around the whole support of piece that's needed because actually what we need to do is we need to work with young people before they get in contact with the criminal justice system.
So young people that are struggling in the home, looking at something like supportive accountability, that should be introduced in the new strategy in my view.
So looking at multi syst uh systemic therapies, looking at
functional family therapies, looking at positive parenting programme
providing all of them supports within the community is the key in an early intervention piece.
And then also when we look at if if finding does come in, we have to look at how ineffective and counterproductive that can be because if a a family is under financial strain that can increase the parental stress
that can increase lack of communication and problems within the household, housing insecurity and and all of these things like poverty and stuff like that are all drivers of youth defending.
So really what we need to be do is we need to be looking at putting the resources into early intervention pieces.
Yeah.
Well, most parents, I think, to be fair, and certainly the parents that I come into contact with do not condone their children's criminal behaviour.
So it's about looking at how we improve that family communication because when you look at young people it's understanding how impulsive young people can be and understanding how youth criminality happens and and youth crime is rarely a calculated choice that's discussed with the parents.
it's usually driven by peer influence, uh trauma and that impulsive side of the young person's brain.
So it's about looking at building the scaffolding around families to ensure that when the young person gets involved in something like antisocial behaviour as low cr low type of criminality, that we can put the supports in there using all the resources of the sp and all the structures.
So young people who are looking for things and parents who are looking for supports and access to mental health services, for example, or addiction uh addiction services or community supports.
Th them services are not reaching everybody, particularly the most marginalised and poor people, and particularly the at risk youth.
So that's the key demographic that we need to be looking to support in order to make our community safer and in order to stop
young people becoming predetermined into lives lives of criminality.
Like these are young people.
They just need support during them adolescent years so that they can navigate themselves through um very challenging times for some of them because of their backgrounds and and help them towards becoming co social individuals and making community safer.
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