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Australian crime : facts and figures 2003
Juvenile corrective institutions
Persons in juvenile corrective institutions by gender, rate per 100,000 juveniles and females as a percentage of total juvenile prisoners, 1981-2002
Source
- Bareja, M & Charlton, K 2003, Statistics on juvenile detention in Australia 1981-2002, Technical and Background Paper Series, no. 5, Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra. <http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/tbp/tbp005.html>
What this chart shows
- Between 1981 and 2002, the overall incarceration rate for juveniles declined from 65 to 25 per 100,000.
- The rate of males and females detained in juvenile corrective institutions declined by an average of 4% and 5% per year respectively, between 1981 and 2002.
- In 2002, the rate for males declined to 44 per 100,000 from 105 in 1981. The rate for females dropped from 23 to 5.
- The percentage of females in the total juvenile prison population has dropped significantly since 1981, at which point females made up 17% of the total. This figure remained at about 6% between 1991 and 1995 before rising to 10% in 2000.
- In 2002, the male incarceration rate was almost nine times higher than the rate for female juveniles.