Juvenile Justice
New releases
Juvenile justice in Australia 2006-07 (27 August 2008)
Hospitalised farm injury among children and young people, Australia 2000-01 to 2004-05 (22 July 2008)
Technical paper on operational definitions and data issues for key national indicators of children's health, development and wellbeing (30 June 2008)
Injury among young Australians (4 June 2008)
The Juvenile Justice National Minimum Data Set is the national collection of
information on young people in community supervision and detention. It contains flow data from 2000-01 for all states and territories
in Australia (except the ACT - data are available from 2003-04).
The Community Services Integration and Linkage Unit at the AIHW is responsible for managing and reporting on the data set.
Juvenile justice in Australia 2005-06 now available
Juvenile justice in Australia 2006-07 due to be released in August 2008
Data collected
Characteristics of young people in juvenile supervision
- age
- sex
- indigenous status
Patterns of supervision
- type (pre-court, pre-sentence, sentence)
- length
- location (community, detention)
Information on supervision such as supervised bail, remand, probation and
sentenced detention is collected.
Information on unsupervised court orders
such as unsupervised bail is not collected.
For further information
- email the Juvenile Justice Data Sub-Committee (JJ DSC) Secretariat (jjdsc.secretariat@aihw.gov.au)
- phone Phil Anderson, Community Services Integration and Linkage Unit, on 02 6244 1125
Contents
How to access data from the JJ NMDS