Youth justice in Australia 2012-13

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

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

About 6,300 young people were under youth justice supervision on an average day in 2012–13

The rate of youth supervision ranged from 16 per 10,000 in Victoria to 35 per 10,000 in Tasmania