Youth justice in Australia 2018–19

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Release Date: 15 May 2020

Topic: Youth justice

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2020) Youth justice in Australia 2018–19, AIHW, Australian Government.

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2020). Youth justice in Australia 2018–19. Canberra: AIHW.

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Youth justice in Australia 2018–19. AIHW, 2020.

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Youth justice in Australia 2018–19. Canberra: AIHW; 2020.

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Of the 5,694 young people under youth justice supervision on an average day in 2018–19, most were male (80%) and supervised in the community (84%). Overall rates of supervision varied among the states and territories, from 11 per 10,000 in Victoria to 61 per 10,000 in the Northern Territory. Supervision fell over the 5 years from 2014–15 to 2018–19 for community-based supervision, however rose for detention.

COVID-19
This release covers data up to 30 June 2019, preceding COVID-19.

ISBN: 978-1-76054-671-7
Cat. no: JUV 132
Pages: 58

Findings from this report:

63% of young people in detention were unsentenced—that is, awaiting the outcome of their legal matter or sentencing.
On an average day in 2018–19, 5,694 young people aged 10 and over were under youth justice supervision.
Individual periods of supervision that were completed during 2018–19 lasted for a median of 132 days (over 4 months).
Indigenous young people aged 10–17 made up 50% of those under youth justice supervision.