The number of people reporting that they are victims of crime has shot up to record levels.

Worryingly, we are also seeing a growing trend of offences committed by younger members of society. We rarely see a week pass without a ram raid incident.  

This has led some politicians to call for harsher penalties for those committing these crimes - even if it does ring of hypocrisy. 

But do harsher penalties actually work? And as a society do we tend to be hard on some offenders while giving a free pass to others?  

Today, I’m joined by Auckland University criminology expert Dr Ronald Kramer to discuss what we can do about some of New Zealand’s youngest criminal offenders.   

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