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Young people returning to sentenced youth justice supervision 2018-19
Young people returning to sentenced youth justice supervision 2018-19
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Topic: Youth justice
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2020) Young people returning to sentenced youth justice supervision 2018-19, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 10 December 2023.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2020). Young people returning to sentenced youth justice supervision 2018-19. Canberra: AIHW.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Young people returning to sentenced youth justice supervision 2018-19. AIHW, 2020.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Young people returning to sentenced youth justice supervision 2018-19. Canberra: AIHW; 2020.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2020, Young people returning to sentenced youth justice supervision 2018-19, AIHW, Canberra.
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Of young people aged 10–17 who were under sentenced youth justice supervision at some time between 2000–01 and 2018–19, 41% returned to sentenced supervision before turning 18. Of young people aged 10–16 in 2017–18 and released from sentenced community-based supervision, 40% returned to sentenced supervision within 6 months, and 57% within 12 months. Of those released from sentenced detention, 61% returned within 6 months, and 80% within 12 months.
- ISSN: 1833-3230
- ISBN: 978-1-76054-726-4
- Cat. no: JUV 133
- Pages: 36
Findings from this report:
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95% of young people who returned to sentenced supervision received a community-based sentence first
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Young people who received a detention sentence were the most likely to return to sentenced supervision
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Indigenous young people were more likely than non-Indigenous young people to return to sentenced supervision
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80% of those released from sentenced detention in 2017–18 returned to supervision within 12 months