Youth justice in Australia 2019-20

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Release Date: 28 May 2021

Topic: Youth justice

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2021) Youth justice in Australia 2019-20, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 16 September 2024.

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2021). Youth justice in Australia 2019-20. Canberra: AIHW.

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Youth justice in Australia 2019-20. AIHW, 2021.

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Youth justice in Australia 2019-20. Canberra: AIHW; 2021.

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2021, Youth justice in Australia 2019-20, AIHW, Canberra.

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Of the 5,323 young people under youth justice supervision on an average day in 2019–20, most were male (80%) and supervised in the community (84%). Overall rates of supervision varied among the states and territories, from 9.0 per 10,000 in Victoria to 50 per 10,000 in the Northern Territory. Rates of supervision fell over the 5 years from 2015–16 to 2019–20 for community-based supervision and detention.

ISBN: 978-1-76054-830-8
Cat. no: JUV 134
Pages: 65

Findings from this report:

On an average day in 2019–20, 5,323 young people aged 10 and over were under youth justice supervision
Of young people under supervision on an average day, 84% were supervised in the community and 16% were in detention
The number of young people under supervision on an average day fell by 4% between 2015–16 and 2019–20
Indigenous young people made up 50% of those aged 10–17 under youth justice supervision on an average day

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Amendments

20 May 2021 –

PDF report page 16, paragraph 5 correction by removing text 'and the Northern Territory'
Key finding 5 reworded to ' The Indigenous supervision rate for young people aged 10–17 was 16 times the non–Indigenous supervision rate in 2019–20'
Update to footnote in supplementary tables relating to Northern Territory data.

23 September 2021 -

Data tables: All youth justice in Australia 2019–20 - In tables s10a, s11a, s13a and s14a, the Australian totals for 2010–11 and 2011–12 were adjusted to include estimates for the Northern Territory.
Data tables: Additional state and territory tables 2019–20 - In tables s140b and c, row heights were adjusted to ensure all data was visible.

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Youth Justice NMDS 2019-20