He wears an electronic tag for the first three months to enforce a curfew outside the hours of 10pm and 7am. The offence happened on his 17th birthday when, during a drunken argument with a friend, he pushed her into a fence (assault) and the fence broke (criminal damage).
Joe left school when he was 13, became a father at 14 and has about 60 previous convictions, mainly for antisocial behaviour and car-related offences. He has spent time in jail and this is his second ISSP, which is not uncommon. Jim Brady, ISSP manager at Nacro Bradford York Partnership, says: "With some young people it can take three times before the penny drops."
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