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Youth detention population in Australia 2019

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Release Date: 28 Feb 2020
Topic: Youth justice

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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:
  • On an average night in the June quarter 2019, 949 young people were in detention

  • On an average night in the June quarter 2019, 90% of young people in detention were male

  • More than half (53%) of all young people in detention on an average night in the June quarter 2019 were Indigenous

  • 63% of young people in detention on an average night in the June quarter 2019 were unsentenced

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Juvenile Justice NMDS 2017–18: Quality Statement

Last updated 7/02/2020 v2.0

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