Crime and criminal justice statistics
Indigenous juveniles in detention
Indigenous and non-Indigenous persons aged 10 to 17 in juvenile detention in Australia and Indigenous over-representation 1994-2006
a Rate per 100,000 relevant population
b Rate ratio (Indigenous rate divided by non-Indigenous rate)
Source: Taylor N 2007. Juvenile detention in Australia : 1981-2006. Technical and background paper series no. 26. Canberra: AIC
Further information
Charts/fact sheets
- Persons in juvenile corrective institutions by Indigenous status, 1994-2005
- Juvenile detention rates 1994-2003
- Indigenous juvenile detention rates
- Rate of incarceration among Indigenous juvenile offenders falling
Other resources
- Juveniles in detention in Australia
Reports from the project that monitors long-term trends and changes in the number and rate of young people in juvenile detention facilities in Australia - Aboriginal involvement in the Western Australian criminal justice system : statistical reviews
Crime Research Centre, University of Western Australia, 1999-2003 - Contact with the NSW court and prison systems : the influence of age, Indigenous status and gender (PDF 159kB)
Don Weatherburn, Bronwyn Lind and Jiuzhao Hua, New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research bulletin, 2003 - Aboriginal people and the criminal justice system no. 2. Comparison of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal contact with the South Australia juvenile justice system, 1997 (PDF 652kB)
Justine Doherty, Office of Crime Statistics, South Australia in association with the South Australian Aboriginal Justice Advocacy Committee, 1999 - Detaining Aboriginal juveniles as a last resort: variations from the theme
Lynn Atkinson, 1996