Juvenile detention population in Australia 2012

This report presents information on the juvenile detention population in Australia, focusing on quarterly trends from June 2008 to June 2012. On an average night, there were about 1,000 young people in detention, about half of whom were unsentenced. Numbers and rates of young people in detention remained relatively stable over the 4 years; however, the level of Indigenous over-representation increased, particularly in unsentenced detention.

ISSN 1833-3230; ISBN 978-1-74249-392-3; Cat. no. JUV 11; 60pp.; $16