Youth Justice Detention Data
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.
Source: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare · Licensed CC-BY 3.0 AU · dataset id aihw.YOUTH_JUSTICE_DETENTION
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Full description
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 time, including the (large) Indigenous-vs-Total disparity that drives most policy debates in this area. Source: AIHW via data.gov.au.
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