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It's time to fix NZ's Sentencing Act, which lets too many young sex offenders avoid jail

  • Written by: Debra Wilson, Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Canterbury
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Over the last 12 months, multiple young sex offenders have been given home detention for sexual assault. Time and time again, the argument has been that these men were too young to fully understand the consequences of what they were doing.

But is 25 really too young to understand that sexual assault is wrong? And how old is old enough...

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