The ACT Party is touting its new crime crackdown policy as a way to curb youth offending.

It wants to see 17-year-olds charged as adults, and for youth justice facilities to be run by Corrections, not Oranga Tamariki.

ACT Party Leader David Seymour told Mike Hosking that their plans are about putting penalties on offenders.

He says this policy is about putting personal responsibility on those that commit crime.

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