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Youth detention population in Australia 2018

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Release Date: 19 Dec 2018
Topic: Youth justice

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2018) Youth detention population in Australia 2018, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 25 March 2023.

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This bulletin presents information on the youth detention population in Australia from June 2014 to June 2018. Among the 980 young people in detention on an average night in the June quarter 2018, most were male (90%), aged 10–17 (84%), unsentenced (60%), and Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander (54%). Over the 4-year period, the number of young people in detention rose, though rates fluctuated across quarters.

  • ISSN: 2205-5010
  • ISBN: 978-1-76054-470-6
  • Cat. no: JUV 128
  • Pages: 24
Findings from this report:
  • On an average night in the June quarter 2018, 980 young people were in detention

  • On an average night in the June quarter 2018, 90% of young people in detention were male

  • More than half (54%) of all young people in detention on an average night in the June quarter 2018 were Indigenous

  • 60% of young people in detention on an average night in the June quarter 2018 were unsentenced

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