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Australian Crime: Facts and Figures 2002

Juvenile corrective institutions: Indigenous status

Persons in juvenile corrective institutions by Indigenous status, rate per 100,000 juveniles, and ratio of Indigenous to non-Indigenous imprisonment rates, 1993-2001
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.
  • Australian Bureau of Statistics, High-level projections of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population, June 1996 to June 2006, Unpublished data.
  • Australian Bureau of Statistics 1986-1996, Experimental estimates of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population (various issues), cat. no. 3230.0.

This figure depicts the incarceration rate of Indigenous and non-Indigenous persons (line graph and left axis) in juvenile corrective institutions, and the ratio of Indigenous rates to non-Indigenous rates (bar graph and right axis).

What this chart shows

  • The total number of Indigenous persons in juvenile corrective institutions on 30 June 2001 was 269. This represented 45% of the total number of persons detained in juvenile corrective institutions.
  • This incarceration rate was 17 times higher than the rate for non-Indigenous juveniles.
  • Since 1998, the rate of Indigenous detention has declined much faster than the rate for non- Indigenous persons.

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