Do not let past misdemeanours haunt youths in the Internet age

TODAY Online

In an opinion-editorial in Today, Assoc Professor Lim Sun Sun of the Department of Communications & New Media explains why confidentiality protection for youth offenders should be extended to age 18 because of the difficulty of “rewriting” one’s negative public image in the Internet era. She argues that this negative image can adversely affect community based rehabilitation efforts of youth offenders.

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