Youth justice in Australia 2016–17
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Topic: Youth justice
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AIHW
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2018) Youth justice in Australia 2016–17, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 04 October 2023.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2018). Youth justice in Australia 2016–17. Canberra: AIHW.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Youth justice in Australia 2016–17. AIHW, 2018.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Youth justice in Australia 2016–17. Canberra: AIHW; 2018.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2018, Youth justice in Australia 2016–17, AIHW, Canberra.
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Of the 5,359 young people under youth justice supervision on an average day in 2016-17, most were male (82%) and supervised in the community (83%). Overall rates of supervision varied among the states and territories, from 13 per 10,000 in Victoria to 67 per 10,000 in the Northern Territory. Despite the overall fall in supervision over the 5 years from 2012–13 to 2016–17, for both detention and community-based supervision, Indigenous over-representation continued to rise.
- ISSN: 2205-5010 (PDF) 1446-9820 (Print)
- ISBN: 978-1-76054-339-6
- Cat. no: JUV 116
- Pages: 50
Findings from this report:
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On an average day in 2016–17, 5,359 young people aged 10 and over were under youth justice supervision
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Of the young people under supervision on an average day, 83% were supervised in the community and 17% were in detention
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The number of young people aged 10–17 under supervision on an average day fell by 16% between 2012–13 and 2016–17
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Indigenous people make up only 5% of those aged 10–17 in Australia, but made up 50% of all those under supervision