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It's called "justice reinvestment", and it's the idea that we put money into the prevention of crime by giving it to community-led programs that will support people and address the drivers of contact with the criminal justice system.

We know that the biggest driver towards criminal behaviour is poverty, and if governments really want to address crime (as they all claim they do), they'd be addressing poverty.

Governments talk about engaging in justice reinvestment, but when you look at the amount of money they give to these programs ($17.25m in Australia) and compare it to the amount they waste on obsolete submarines ($368 BILLION), you get more of a sense of what's actually happening.

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