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CANBERRA has the lowest proportion of young people successfully completing community-based orders (CBO) in Australia, according to the report on Government Services 2021.
A CBO gives offenders the opportunity to cease their criminal behaviour through rehabilitation and education programs while also allowing them to remain in school or work, and is considered incomplete when a court decides the order has been breached.
Figures from the report show only 45.8 per cent of offenders in the ACT sentenced to a CBO successfully completed them in 2019-20, in contrast to the national average of 82.8 per cent.
When it comes to indigenous youth the figures take even more of a dive, with only 15.9 per cent of indigenous young people in the ACT completing their CBOs in comparison to a national average of 80.8 per cent.