I Don't Think You Really Thought About That Statement, Either....

“These people who commit these actions are not thinking about their actions. If it did we would have solved crime thousands of years ago.

“It works for people who are thinking rationally. These young people are not thinking about it. We met young people in prisons over the years who all said they didn’t mean to do it.”

Of course they say that. It's what their defence tells them to say!

“If you just raise the prison sentence we just end up with more young people in prison. We need to protect young people from themselves, they are as much their own worst enemies.”

Not while I'm around, they aren't....