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Young People in Detention and on Community-Based Supervision Orders 2009-10
13.28 Young Persons in Detention,
By combined selected states and territories 2009–10
Young persons in detention(a) no.
All young people 5 017
Males 4 227
Females 784
Indigenous status
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander 1 787
Non-Indigenous 3 124
Unknown 106
Sentence status(b)
Sentenced 1 457
Unsentenced 4 432
Both sentenced and unsentenced 872
(a) Western Australia and the Northern Territory did not supply data for 2009–10.
(b) The number of sentenced and unsentenced young people will not sum to total as some young people would have been both unsentenced and sentenced during the year.
Source: AIHW, Juvenile justice in Australia 2009–10, Juvenile justice series no. 8. JUV8.
Young People Under Community-Based Supervision
In 2009–10, 10,914 young people were under juvenile community-based supervision during the year (table 13.30). The most common type of order was probation and similar, with 8,890 young people receiving these orders during the year.
Data are sourced from the Juvenile Justice National Minimum Dataset collected by the AIHW.