Crime and criminal justice statistics
Victims of crime - Juveniles
Children on care and protection orders, rates per 100,000 children aged 0-17
Note: Rates were calculated by dividing the number of children on care and protection orders on June 30 of each year by ABS estimates of the Australian population aged 0-17 years valid for June 30 of each year. Nationwide figures for 2004 are not available.
Source: Australian Institute of Criminology 2005. Children on care and protection orders in Australia. Crime facts info no. 101, 5 July. http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/cfi/cfi101.html
Further information
- Child protection Australia 2006-07 | 2005-06 | 2004-05 | 2003-04 | 2002-03 (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare)
Charts/fact sheets
- Child protection and Indigenous status
- Experiences of neglect and abuse amongst juvenile detainees
- Kidnapping/abduction, rates per 100,000, 1995-2004
- Childhood victimisation as indicators of adult victimisation
- Predictors of subsequent juvenile offending of maltreated children
- One quarter of young people in Australia witness domestic violence
Other publications and data sources
- Recorded crime - victims, Australia
Australian Bureau of Statistics. Annual publication of national crime statistics relating to victims of a selected range of offences - Victims of crime statistics
NSW Commission for Children and Young People - Childhood victimisation and the cycle of violence
Jenny Mouzos and Toni Makkai. In Women's experiences of male violence : findings from the Australian component of the International Violence Against Women Survey (IVAWS), 2004 - Trends in the murder of juveniles : 1980 - 2000 (PDF 422kB)
Paul D Harms and Howard N Snyder. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (US), 2004 - Pathways from child maltreatment to juvenile offending
Anna Stewart, Susan Dennison and Elissa Waterson, 2002 - Young Australians and domestic violence
David Indermaur, 2001 - Child abuse and neglect : part 1 - redefining the issues
Marianne James, 2000 - Juveniles as victims
Satyanshu Mukherjee, Carlos Carcach and Karl Higgins. Juvenile crime and justice : Australia 1997 - Violence against children
Kim Dwyer and Heather Strang, 1989
- International Crime Victim Surveys 2004
Reports from the Australian component of the ICVS, undertaken by the Australian Institute of Criminology - The Australian component of the 2000 International Crime Victims Survey (ICVS)
Carlos Carcach and Toni Makkai, 2003 - International Crime Victims Surveys | ICVS publications
UNODC and UNICRI. Further information and reports from previous surveys - Criminal victimisation in seventeen industrialised countries : key-findings from the 2000 international Crime Victims Survey
J N van Kesteren, P Mayhew and P Nieuwbeerta. Dutch Ministry of Justice, 2000