First Nations young people in detention
About 2 in 3 (460 or 65%) of the young people aged 10–17 in detention on an average day in 2023–24 were First Nations young people (Table S74a). In 2023–24, the rate of First Nations young people aged 10–17 in detention on an average day was 27 per 10,000, compared with 1.0 per 10,000 for non-Indigenous young people (Table S75a). This means First Nations young people aged 10–17 were about 27 times as likely as their non-Indigenous counterparts to be in detention on an average day. This level of First Nations over-representation (as measured by the rate ratio – see Appendix A1: Data quality and Appendix A2: technical information – was higher for those in detention than for those under community-based supervision (about 19 times as likely) (Table 3.1a; Table 3.1b).