Trina O'Connor
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first heard May 2026
last heard 7 Sep
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exists when they're traumatised.
So their emotions might may be heightened.
They may not be able to regulate their nervous system and that may make them respond in a way that most people who are not traumatised will see as a little bit explosive, for example.
Well, look, I suppose a lot of people would say stuff like, where are the parents when young people are getting involved in crime, particularly violent crime?
And I think when it comes to violent crime, I think it's very important that we do wrap-up services around families so that we can support families to move young people away from violence.
And young people, unfortunately, will often have to serve a custodial sentence because of the violent actions that they take.
But if you go on the other end of the scale around antisocial behaviour and that kind of thing,
that many people see and again ask where are the parents.
I think this is where we do need to have a kind of, we need to look at the benefits and risks involved in, I suppose, giving the parents a custodial sentence or indeed a fine because
we have to look at the effectiveness of it as a deterrent.
And I suppose the evidence will tell us that that kind of punitive approach, like it was tried a long time ago now in other countries, and there was one called punish the parent.
And the laws were politically popular, but they were very ineffective in lowering the crime because...
you have to look at supportive interventions.
And I think your last speaker there, Vincent, was talking about this whole thing around supportive interventions because we know the evidence backs these up and the outcomes for these kind of interventions are much better than the punitive side of putting people in custody.
Well, I mean, the age of criminal responsibility is 10 in the UK, but the UK itself is kind of a devolved criminal justice system.
So you have different ones for England, Wales, Scotland and indeed Northern Ireland.
Like Scotland, like they more look at their guiding, I suppose, responses to youth intervention is all around, you know, welfare principle.
In England and Wales, it's looking at multi-agency coordination and youth offending teams.
In Ireland, we also look at multi-agency, we look at rehabilitation and we also look at detention, particularly for violence.
So we look at community and secure and children's hearings where parents indeed, if their child is under 18, they must attend the criminal court for children.
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