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Australian Crime: Facts and Figures 2002

Trends in juvenile corrective institution population

Persons in juvenile corrective institutions by gender, rate per 100,000 juveniles and ratio of male to female imprisonment rates, 1981-2001
Line graph/Bar chart composite

Sources:

  • Australian Bureau of Statistics 1981-2001, Population by age and sex: Australian states and territories (various issues), cat. no. 3201.0.
  • Australian Institute of Criminology 2001, Persons in juvenile corrective institutions 1981-2000: with a statistical review of the year 2000, Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra, <http://www.aic.gov.au/stats/juveniles/2000/index.html>.
  • Cahill, L & Marshall, P 2002, Statistics on juvenile detention in Australia: 1981-2001, Technical and Background Paper Series, no. 1, Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra.

This figure depicts the imprisonment rate of male and female juveniles (line graph and left axis) and the ratio of male incarceration rates to female rates (bar graph and right axis), from 1981 to 2001.

What this chart shows

  • Between 1981 and 2001, the overall incarceration rate for persons in juvenile corrective institutions declined from 65 to 28 per 100,000.
  • The number of persons detained in juvenile corrective institutions declined by an average annual rate of 3% (males) and 6% (females), between 1981 and 2001.
  • Between 1981 and 1995, males were increasingly over-represented in juvenile correctional institutions. With the exception of 1998, a decline in the level of male over-representation has been recorded since 1995.
  • The male rate declined from 55 per 100,000 in 1999-2000 to 49 per 100,000 in 2000-2001.
  • In 2001, the incarceration rate for male juveniles was almost eight times higher than that for female juveniles.
  • Just over 10% of all persons incarcerated in juvenile corrective institutions were female in 2001, compared to 17% in 1981.

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