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Katherine community asked to back justice reinvestment project to tackle crime

In the tiny New South Wales town of Bourke, where crime was crippling, a bold experiment turned a community around and saved hundreds of young people from a lifetime of contact with the justice system. 

Now a town thousands of kilometres north, with many of the same crime problems, wants its own solution, and some think it could lie in an emerging approach called "justice reinvestment".

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