A criminologist has questioned the Queensland government's use of crime data to show its 'adult crime, adult time' laws are working.
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00:00well the reaction to this has been a fairly mixed bag now it is important to
00:07note that these making Queenslander safe laws were first passed through Parliament
00:10last December and what they mean is that for juveniles they can be sentenced for
00:15adult crimes such as murder manslaughter as well as burglary now
00:21these data figures that have come out have come directly from the crucifix
00:25government and what they show is that there has been a 32 percent drop in cases relating to a lot
00:31of these crimes that have been presented before the courts but it is important to note that that's
00:36been measured within a three-month period so it's just for the first quarter of this year it's
00:41something that a Queensland criminologist has said that while the trend is certainly good news it is
00:47too early to tell whether or not these are directly linked to the new laws it's sentiments that have
00:52also been echoed by the state's opposition who have said that the government is simply cherry-picking
00:57a lot of these statistics and they've questioned whether or not this particular data set measuring
01:03within a three-month period is something that hasn't really been done before now the premier
01:07David Christopher fully has defended these actions and he said that while there is good news that we
01:13are seeing sort of a reduction in youth crime numbers there is still a mammoth task ahead of the
01:18state government in terms of continuing that trend now when asked about the victim target numbers
01:23that was a key pre-election promise that was made last year the premier has remained fairly tight-lipped
01:30now we are expecting the second tranche of these making Queenslanders safe laws to be introduced to
01:36parliament next month where they'll be debated an additional 20 charges will also be added to that
01:41legislation but as for this week the focus is going to be on DNA sample safeguards that is
01:47expected to be debated in state parliament today