Dr. Sharon Lambert:

It is the way in which it is done. The issue is when you decide an individual from an area, community or family is at risk of committing crime and you take him or her into a group but that young person has not been in trouble or anything. It is kind of targeted. We have to be really careful about what message we are sending to that young person. I have worked on a Garda youth diversion project and I know when we went on activities that people would refer to us as “the Garda kids”.