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released: 10 Aug 2007 author: AIHW media release

Juvenile justice in Australia 2005-06 provides data from the Juvenile Justice National Minimum Data Set (NMDS) developed by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) and the Australasian Juvenile Justice Administrators (AJJA). The Juvenile Justice NMDS includes information on all young people in juvenile justice supervision in Australia, both in the community and in detention. It is based on the experience of the young person within supervision, while making it somewhat different to other criminal justice collections that focus on legal orders. This is the third report on the collection and presents data for 2005-06, as well as analyses of trends in community-based supervision and detention over the six years since 2000-01 when the collection began. It includes data on the characteristics of the young people under supervision such as age, sex and Indigenous status, and their patterns of supervision over time.

ISSN 1833-3230; ISBN 978 1 74024 709 2; Cat. no. JUV 3; 146pp.; Out of print

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Publication table of contents

  • Preliminary material (187KB PDF)
    • Half title and verso pages
    • Title and verso pages
    • Contents
    • Acknowledgments
    • Abbreviations
    • Summary
      • Main findings of the report
  • Sections
    1. Introduction (196KB PDF)
      • 1.1 Background to the Juvenile Justice National Minimum Data Set
      • 1.2 The juvenile justice process in Australia
      • 1.3 Key policy directions
      • 1.4 Structure of the data presented in this report
    2. National juvenile justice data: scope, definitions and interpretational issues (190KB PDF)
      • 2.1 The Juvenile Justice National Minimum Data Set (NMDS)
      • 2.2 Interpretation of the data
      • 2.3 Development and data quality
    3. Young person characteristics (194KB PDF)
      • 3.1 Number of young people in supervision
      • 3.2 Number of males and females in supervision
      • 3.3 Age of young people in supervision
      • 3.4 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people in supervision
      • 3.5 Relationships between sex, age and Indigenous status
      • 3.6 Age of initial juvenile justice supervision
      • 3.7 Summary
    4. Average daily numbers (292KB PDF)
      • 4.1 Average daily numbers in community supervision
      • 4.2 Average daily numbers in detention
      • 4.3 Average daily numbers in juvenile justice supervision
      • 4.4 Summary
    5. Juvenile justice supervision (295KB PDF)
      • 5.1 Supervision periods
      • 5.2 Community supervision and detention
      • 5.3 Sex comparisons
      • 5.4 Age comparisons
      • 5.5 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people
      • 5.6 Reasons for exit from episodes
      • 5.7 Age at first supervision and number of supervision periods
      • 5.8 Age at first supervision and types of sentences
      • 5.9 Age at first supervision and detention at first supervision
      • 5.10 Summary
  • End matter (249KB PDF)
    • Appendixes
      • Appendix A: Juvenile justice legislation in Australia
        • New South Wales
        • Victoria
        • Queensland
        • Western Australia
        • South Australia
        • Tasmania
        • Australian Capital Territory
        • Northern Territory
      • Appendix B: Key elements of juvenile justice systems in each state and territory
        • New South Wales
        • Victoria
        • Queensland
        • Western Australia
        • South Australia
        • Tasmania
        • Australian Capital Territory
        • Northern Territory
      • Appendix C: List of remand and detention centres
      • Appendix D: Tables
    • Glossary
    • References
    • List of tables
    • List of figure

Recommended citation

AIHW 2007. Juvenile justice in Australia 2005-06. Juvenile justice series no. 3. Cat. no. JUV 3. Canberra: AIHW.