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Defined Terms
Detention means "Detention based
youth justice supervision involves young people serving their sentence in a
custodial environment."
17.4 Definitions of key terms
Community-based youth justice
supervision
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Community-based youth justice supervision is an alternative to
detention, where a sentenced order or unsentenced order (such as
conditional bail) is served in the community.
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Detention-based youth justice supervision
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Detention-based youth justice supervision involves young people
serving their sentence in a custodial environment.
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"Total recurrent expenditure on detention-based supervision,
community-based supervision and group conferencing was $842.4 million
across Australia in 2017-18, with detention-based supervision accounting
for the majority of this expenditure (60.4 per cent, or $509.1 million)
(table 17A.8). Nationally in 2017-18, recurrent expenditure on youth
justice services per young person in the population aged 10–17 years (as
distinct from per youth justice client, which is reported as a
performance indicator in section 17.3) was $357 (figure 17.5)."
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Cost per young person
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‘Cost per young person
subject to detention-based supervision’ is defined as recurrent
expenditure on detention-based supervision per day, divided by the
average daily number of young people subject to detention-based
supervision.
Recurrent expenditure per day is calculated as annual recurrent
expenditure divided by 365.25.
The average daily number of young people is calculated by summing the
number of days each young person spends under supervision during the
year (irrespective of age) and dividing this total by the number of days
in the same year.
A low or decreasing
average cost per day per young person is desirable as it suggests more
efficient resource management.
Data reported for this
indicator are:
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not comparable
across jurisdictions but are comparable (subject to caveats) within
jurisdictions over time
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complete (subject to
caveats) for the current reporting period. All required 2017-18 data
are available for all jurisdictions.
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