Youth detention population in Australia 2020
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Topic: Youth justice
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AIHW (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare) (2021) Youth detention population in Australia 2020, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 24 June 2026, doi:10.25816/ejgy-9v58.
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This report presents information on the youth detention population in Australia from June 2016 to June 2020. Among the 798 young people in detention on an average night in the June quarter 2020, most were male (91%), aged 10–17 (80%), unsentenced (64%), and non-Indigenous (52%). Over the 4-year period, the number of young people in detention fluctuated across quarters though fell overall from 922 in the June quarter 2016.
- ISBN: 978-1-76054-805-6
- DOI: 10.25816/ejgy-9v58
- Cat. no: JUV 135
- Pages: 32
Findings from this report:
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On an average night in the June quarter 2020, 798 young people were in detention
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On an average night in the June quarter 2020, 91% of young people in detention were male
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48% of all young people in detention on an average night in the June quarter 2020 were Indigenous