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Australian crime : facts and figures 2003

Juvenile corrective institutions

Persons in juvenile corrective institutions by Indigenous status, rate per 100,000 juveniles, and Indigenous juvenile prisoners as a percentage of total juvenile prisoners, 31 March 1994-30 June 2002
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Sources

  • 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>
  • Australian Bureau of Statistics, High-level projections of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population, June 1996 to June 2006, unpublished data.

What this chart shows

  • The total number of Indigenous persons in juvenile corrective institutions on 30 June 2002 was 243. This represents 47% of the total number of persons detained in juvenile corrective institutions.
  • The incarceration rate for Indigenous juveniles was 256.7 per 100,000, 19 times higher than the rate for non-Indigenous juveniles (13.6 per 100,000).
  • There has been a 45% decline in the rate of Indigenous juvenile imprisonment rate since the high of 468 per 100,000 recorded in March 1997.
  • The over representation of Indigenous juveniles exceeded that of Indigenous adults: 19 times the rate of non-Indigenous juveniles compared with 12 times the rate of non-Indigenous adults.

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