Elijah* tried to keep out of trouble when he got out of lock-up. A new path seemed within reach, but he was torn. “It was so mixed feelings,” he recalls. “I wanted to change my life, but I had a bunch of stuff on me … it was like two things fighting at once.”
Within weeks, the teenager, who had previously been swept up in burglaries, had joined one of Melbourne’s youth gangs. Things escalated from there.
