Youth detention population trends
Youth detention population in Australia 2019
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Topic: Youth justice
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2020) Youth detention population in Australia 2019, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 25 April 2024.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2020). Youth detention population in Australia 2019. Canberra: AIHW.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Youth detention population in Australia 2019. AIHW, 2020.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Youth detention population in Australia 2019. Canberra: AIHW; 2020.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2020, Youth detention population in Australia 2019, AIHW, Canberra.
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This bulletin presents information on the youth detention population in Australia from June 2015 to June 2019. Among the 949 young people in detention on an average night in the June quarter 2019, most were male (90%), aged 10–17 (83%), unsentenced (63%), and Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander (53%). Over the 4-year period, the number of young people in detention fluctuated across quarters with no clear trend.
- ISSN: 2205-5010
- ISBN: 978-1-76054-663-2
- Cat. no: JUV 131
Findings from this report:
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On an average night in the June quarter 2019, 949 young people were in detention
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On an average night in the June quarter 2019, 90% of young people in detention were male
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More than half (53%) of all young people in detention on an average night in the June quarter 2019 were Indigenous
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63% of young people in detention on an average night in the June quarter 2019 were unsentenced