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Youth crime: Call this justice?

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Nineteen-year-old Dan Dutt-Hemp has spent more than three months in custody over the past year and he believes that better intervention could have helped him resist crime

Soon enough I got bored of living in a big Victorian house with nowhere to get a bag of 'green' to calm my nerves and help me sleep. I got so bored that one night at about 1am I decided to take a walk down to my mum's estate in West Norwood, south east London, to jam with my friends. On the way I saw a house with an open window. Before I knew what I was doing, I was inside the house stealing two mobile phones. On my way to my friend's house, I was offered 50 for them. I accepted the money and carried on to my mum's house where I met my friends, bought some draw and chilled out.

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