Juvenile justice trends in Australia

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Juvenile justice trends in Australia

• Rachel Aalders

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Key points

• Relatively few young people are involved in the
  juvenile justice system
• Significant and ongoing over-representation of
  Indigenous young people
• Changes in the use of detention
• Impact of factors at the state and territory
  level

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Juvenile justice system in Australia

• State and territory responsibility
• Involves police, courts, juvenile justice
  agencies, parole boards
• Young person
• 1017 years (1016 years in Qld)
• 18 in some cases

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Juvenile justice systemoverview
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Juvenile justice data and reports

• Juvenile justice in Australia (AIHW)
• Juvenile Justice National Minimum Data Set
• Unit-record data from 200001
• Data in presentation 200708
• Criminal Courts (ABS)
• Finalised defendants
• Childrens Court data from 200607
• Recorded crimeoffenders (ABS)
• People proceeded against by police
• Data on children aged 10 years and older from
  200708

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Only a few are supervised

• For 1017 year olds, each year
• 65,000 proceeded against by police
• 25,000 defendants in Childrens Courts
• 14,000 supervised by juvenile justice agencies
• 6,000 in detention

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National trends in supervision rates
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National trendscommunity
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National trendsdetention
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National trends in detentionlegal status
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Community and detention rates
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Community-based supervisionIndigenous status
(rates)
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DetentionIndigenous status (rates)
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Detentionlegal status (rates)
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Trends in remand
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Trends in sentenced detention
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Report availability

• All AIHW publications available for free to
  download
• https//www.aihw.gov.au
• http//www.aihw.gov.au/publications/index.cfm
• Juvenile justice report series
• http//www.aihw.gov.au/publications/index.cfm/seri
  es/405
• Juvenile justice subject page
• http//www.aihw.gov.au/phjj/juvenilejustice

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Contact details

• Rachel Aalders
• Senior Project Manager, Juvenile Justice
• Child and Youth Welfare Unit
• rachel.aalders_at_aihw.gov.au
• juvenilejustice_at_aihw.gov.au
• 02 6244 1112