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Youth Justice Detention Data

Name: Youth Justice Detention Data
Creator: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/

AIHW Youth Justice Detention - quarterly average nightly population in Australian youth detention facilities, broken down by state × sex × legal status (Sentenced / Unsentenced) × Indigenous status × quarter × year. The headline indicator for tracking youth incarceration over tim

Source: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare · Licensed CC-BY 3.0 AU · dataset id aihw.YOUTH_JUSTICE_DETENTION

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curl -H 'Authorization: Bearer ak_your_key' \
  https://api.ausdata.io/v1/data/aihw/YOUTH_JUSTICE_DETENTION

Returns JSON with the original Australian Institute of Health and Welfare attribution on every response. Add ?format=csv for CSV, ?start=YYYY-MM to return rows from a period forward, or ?limit=1000 to fetch more than the default page.

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