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Just one in four teenage muggers is locked up as vast majority of youth criminals walk free from soft courts
Britain's toothless youth courts are jailing just one in four teenage muggers, it has emerged.
Any incentive for young offenders to clean up their act is fading under our soft touch justice system, with serious punishment becoming a rarity.
A mere one in 15 under-18s who have been caught committing a crime have been imprisoned in the past year, the outrageous figures obtained by The Sun revealed
.
Running wild: One in 15 young criminals are escaping jail under Britain's soft touch justice system
Only one in ten teenage arsonists were locked up, the statistics showed, while of those who committed sex crimes, an incredible 96 per cent walked free.
Just 24 per cent of robberies by under-18s ended in custodial sentences, said the newspaper, and only one in 17 violent offenders was locked up.
This is despite the face that serious violent or sexual offences can be punished with life imprisonment, according to the Government's crime and justice website.
The majority of cases involving under-18s are heard in a magistrates' court, where sentences can include a referral to a youth offender panel or an order to pay compensation.
Most young criminals are facing nothing harsher than rehabilitation, fines or community service
.
Lenient: Most under-18s are tried in youth courts, were sentences can include curfews and community orders
Other 'punishments' involve sending an offender's guardian to parenting skills classes or asking them to impose a curfew on their child.
A custodial sentence given in a magistrates' court is never more than two years, half of which is often served in the community, and only the most serious crimes - such as murder - go to a Crown Court.
Of the 72,841 crimes prosecuted in youth courts over the past 12 months, just 4,849 were punished by custodial sentences, according to The Sun.
The revelations are a further embarrassment for Justice Secretary Ken Clarke's 'light touch' system of punishment.
Tory MP Priti Patel said the figures were 'shocking'. She said: 'These individuals know what they're doing, they are old enough to understand the law.
'The fact they're not being punished properly shows how feeble our criminal justice system is.
'Worse than that, it's failing to protect the public.'
The Ministry of Justice said: 'Sentencing is a matter for the independent judiciary. Their decisions are based on the individual circumstances of each case.'
Britain's toothless youth courts are jailing just one in four teenage muggers, it has emerged.
Any incentive for young offenders to clean up their act is fading under our soft touch justice system, with serious punishment becoming a rarity.
A mere one in 15 under-18s who have been caught committing a crime have been imprisoned in the past year, the outrageous figures obtained by The Sun revealed
.
Running wild: One in 15 young criminals are escaping jail under Britain's soft touch justice system
Only one in ten teenage arsonists were locked up, the statistics showed, while of those who committed sex crimes, an incredible 96 per cent walked free.
Just 24 per cent of robberies by under-18s ended in custodial sentences, said the newspaper, and only one in 17 violent offenders was locked up.
This is despite the face that serious violent or sexual offences can be punished with life imprisonment, according to the Government's crime and justice website.
The majority of cases involving under-18s are heard in a magistrates' court, where sentences can include a referral to a youth offender panel or an order to pay compensation.
Most young criminals are facing nothing harsher than rehabilitation, fines or community service
.
Lenient: Most under-18s are tried in youth courts, were sentences can include curfews and community orders
Other 'punishments' involve sending an offender's guardian to parenting skills classes or asking them to impose a curfew on their child.
A custodial sentence given in a magistrates' court is never more than two years, half of which is often served in the community, and only the most serious crimes - such as murder - go to a Crown Court.
Of the 72,841 crimes prosecuted in youth courts over the past 12 months, just 4,849 were punished by custodial sentences, according to The Sun.
The revelations are a further embarrassment for Justice Secretary Ken Clarke's 'light touch' system of punishment.
Tory MP Priti Patel said the figures were 'shocking'. She said: 'These individuals know what they're doing, they are old enough to understand the law.
'The fact they're not being punished properly shows how feeble our criminal justice system is.
'Worse than that, it's failing to protect the public.'
The Ministry of Justice said: 'Sentencing is a matter for the independent judiciary. Their decisions are based on the individual circumstances of each case.'
