Young people returning to sentenced youth justice supervision 2019–20
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Topic: Youth justice
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2021) Young people returning to sentenced youth justice supervision 2019–20, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 20 April 2024. doi:10.25816/e5pz-g736
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2021). Young people returning to sentenced youth justice supervision 2019–20. Canberra: AIHW. doi:10.25816/e5pz-g736
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Young people returning to sentenced youth justice supervision 2019–20. AIHW, 2021. doi:10.25816/e5pz-g736
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Young people returning to sentenced youth justice supervision 2019–20. Canberra: AIHW; 2021. doi:10.25816/e5pz-g736
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2021, Young people returning to sentenced youth justice supervision 2019–20, AIHW, Canberra. doi:10.25816/e5pz-g736
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Of young people aged 10–17 who were under sentenced youth justice supervision at some time between 2000–01 and 2019–20, 41% returned to sentenced supervision before turning 18. Of young people aged 10–16 in 2018–19 and released from sentenced community-based supervision, 38% returned to sentenced supervision within 6 months, and 54% within 12 months. Of those released from sentenced detention, 61% returned within 6 months, and 80% within 12 months.
- ISSN: 2205-5118
- ISBN: 978-1-76054-907-7
- DOI: 10.25816/e5pz-g736
- Cat. no: JUV 137
- Pages: 48
Findings from this report:
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95% of young people who returned to sentenced supervision received a community-based sentence first
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Young people who received a detention sentence were the most likely to return to sentenced supervision
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Indigenous young people were more likely than non-Indigenous young people to return to sentenced supervision
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80% of those released from sentenced detention in 2018–19 returned to supervision within 12 months