A sentencing judge imposing detention on a juvenile must engage in the sentencing remarks with the specific content of any proposed conditional release order program in the pre-sentence report and explain why that program would not adequately serve the purposes of punishment. A bare statement that a conditional release order was considered but detention is necessary does not satisfy the obligation under s 208 of the Youth Justice Act 1992 (Qld).
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