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Those are the latest figures from the Northern Ireland Office.

And they don't stay out of trouble for long - just over 50 per cent of fourteen year olds re-offend within a year. The question is how can these teenagers be steered away from a life of crime?

BBC Newsline has been given exclusive access to what happens in the youth justice system. In the first of a three part series, Laura Lyon hears the views of one young man who broke the law.

If you were the victim of a crime caused by a young person - would you want to go to court or meet them face to face to discuss what they'd done? Well more and more people are taking the second option

In our latest report we have been given exclusive access to life inside the Juvenile Justice Centre, Woodlands, near Bangor. It's home to up to around fifty ten to seventeen year olds who are on remand or in custody. Laura Lyon looks at life inside.