New data out this morning shows more than half of Australia's states and territories have recorded significant increases in offending by people under 17-years-old.
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00:00 This data has come from the Bureau of Statistics and it has shown that there was just over
00:07 48,000 offending in the age group between 10 and 17 in a 12 month period, which is a
00:15 6% increase on the 2021-22 numbers.
00:20 The most common offending that we have seen in that age bracket is acts intended to cause
00:26 injury and more than two thirds of the offending have been males.
00:32 We saw the most amount of offending in Queensland, there were just under 11,000 cases in that
00:37 12 month period.
00:39 That too was a 6% increase.
00:41 There have been bigger increases in Victoria and Tasmania, 16% in Victoria, 14% in Victoria.
00:52 In the ACT in South Australia there was also a jump of 11%.
00:56 In the ACT the youth crime rates are actually higher than the crime rates of all ages, but
01:03 the numbers there are pretty small.
01:06 There was 109 cases of youth crime in that 12 month period.
01:11 There's also been a fair bit of repeat offending.
01:14 Most states and territories have seen that number around 31 to 37%, but it was highest
01:21 in the Northern Territory, 53% of youth offending more than once.
01:27 Although youth crime has gone up longer, the use of illicit drugs amongst youth has declined
01:34 and has done so for the eighth consecutive year.
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