Pathways through youth justice supervision explores the types of youth justice supervision experienced by particular cohorts of young people based on data available from the Juvenile Justice National Minimum Data Set (JJ NMDS) from 2000–01 to 2012–13. The report found that the top 10 pathways accounted for nearly three quarters (71%) of young people who experienced supervision. It also found that young males, young Indigenous people, those aged 10–14 at first supervision and those experiencing sentenced detention at some point were more likely than their counterparts to have more complex and varied pathways through supervision.

ISBN: 978-1-74249-596-5
Cat. no: JUV 40
Pages: 36

Findings from this report:

52% of young people who were supervised only experienced 1 type of youth justice supervision
Young people who were male, Indigenous or aged 10–14 at first supervision had more complex and serious pathways
Young people whose supervision history contained some form of detention had more varied and complex pathways
The 10 most common supervision pathways accounted for 71% of young people who experienced youth justice supervision

Preliminary material
- Title and verso page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Summary
Body section
- 1 Introduction
  - The youth justice system in Australia
  - Young people in the youth justice system
  - Methods
- 2 Pathways young people experienced through youth justice supervision
  - The number of young people who have experienced youth justice supervision
  - Common pathways through supervision
- 3 Characteristics of young people in supervision pathways
  - Sex
  - Indigenous status
  - Age at first supervision
  - State
  - Summary of findings-varying characteristics
- 4 Pathways containing detention
  - Unsentenced detention
  - Sentenced detention
  - Summary of detention pathway
- 5 Completing the story
  - Child abuse and neglect
  - Socio-economic status
  - Homelessness
  - Disability
  - Type of offence
  - Transition to the adult criminal justice system
End matter
- Appendix A: Studies and methods
  - Juvenile Justice National Minimum Data Set
  - Longitudinal research
- Appendix B: Technical notes
  - Age
  - Average and median
  - Cohorts
  - Rates
  - Rate ratios
- References
- List of tables
- List of figures
- List of boxes
- Related publications

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