KEY POINTS:
- What can be done about teen violence?
One in seven police arrests last year involved youth offenders, according to the first annual report on youth justice.
More young males are offending. During the period 1995-2006 between 77 and 80 per cent of all young people apprehended were male. Last year there were 30,451 arrests of people in the 14-16 age group. That equated to about one in seven across all age groups of a total of 203,484 arrests.
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