Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people are not overrepresented in the criminal justice system
Target 11: By 2031, reduce the rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people (10-17 years) in detention by at least 30 per cent.
Indicators:
Drivers:
- Un-sentenced detention rates
- Average time in detention for unsentenced youth
- Proportion of young alleged offenders (10-17 years) involved in police proceedings including charges and summons, cautions, diversions
- Proportion of young people convicted and sentenced, by type of sentence (community supervision, detention)
- Entrant rate to detention – newly sentenced to youth detention
- Proportion of youth under community supervision transitioning to detention
- Young people returning to detention or community supervision
- Proportion of young people first coming into youth justice system aged 10-13 (offending and courts data, first entry to detention)
Contextual information:
- Community supervision trends
- proportion of young people in detention who had received child protection services (including out-of-home care)
- Proportion exiting detention, by reason
- Progress towards parity
Disaggregation:
- Geographic area (jurisdiction, remoteness, other geographic categories available)
- Socio-economic status of the locality
- Age (10-13, 14-17 year olds)
- Gender
Data Development:
Explore options to measure and report:
- disaggregation of police contact by caution, charges, prosecution, and diversion (by type)
- detentions by offence type
- reasons for young people being placed on remand
- access to services at first interaction with criminal justice system, by type and availability
- training provided and undertaken by police and workers engaging with youth, including cultural safety and trauma-informed practice
- access to services in detention (health, trauma, mental health and wellbeing, cultural engagement and support of young people in detention
- disaggregation of data by:
- disability status, including prevalence of neurodevelopmental impairment and foetal alcohol spectrum disorder
- geographic area of residence/offending
- consistent definitions of youth detention and recidivism across jurisdictions
- rates of death in prison custody of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth prisoners, by cause of death
- proportion of young people in detention who had:
- experienced domestic and family violence, abuse/neglect
- received alcohol and other drug treatment services (ongoing reporting)
- received specialist homelessness services
- experienced mental health issues
- been expelled or suspended from school
- access to culturally secure services and programs while in detention, by type and timing of service