value of property stolen, physical and emotional impact) but also the costs of responding to it e.g. cost of the criminal justice system. The Home Office analysis suggests that an individual offender might cost the tax payer on average of £300,000 to get through the system. It is estimated that young people aged 10- 16 years are responsible for around 25 per cent of crime, thus a total cost in the region of £6bn is spent per year on fighting youth