Youth justice in Australia 2012-13

Young people aged 10–17 were 6 times as likely to be under community-based supervision as in detention

Indigenous young people aged 10–17 were 17 times as likely as non-Indigenous young people to be under supervision

83% young people under supervision on an average day were male

Over the 5-year period to 2012–13, the level of Indigenous over-representation in youth justice supervision increased