Penalties for parents
PA Wellington Parents should be held responsible for the criminal actions of their children, according to the Opposition spokesman on justice, Mr Paul East. While penalties would be controversial, young children roaming the streets at night without parental control accounted for a substantial
amount of criminal offending, particularly burg“Criminal offending usually starts at a young age and it is important to turn youngsters from a life of crime in their early years,” said Mr East, member of Parliament for Rotorua, in an address on law and order to the Rotorua Rotary Club.
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Press, 12 February 1986, Page 1
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