The charity has responded to the Government's consultation on extending conditional cau-tions to 16- and 17-year-olds and is concerned at the prospect of young people being made to do unpaid work.
Conditional cautions allow police to give a caution with requirements attached, one of which can be working for free.
Chris Stanley, head of policy and research at Nacro, said it was not appropriate for young people. "We support the reduction in the number of young people in court but we think all measures that are devoted to young people should be measures for them, not adult hand-me-downs."
He added: "We'd like to see some form of restorative justice with victims. It's not a punish-ment but a way of meeting vic-tims and paying them back."
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