Juvenile Justice NMDS 2009
Data Set Specification Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Set Specification |
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METEOR identifier: | 378088 |
Registration status: | Community Services (retired), Standard 14/09/2009 |
DSS type: | National Minimum Data Set (NMDS) |
Scope: | The Juvenile Justice NMDS contains information about young people under juvenile justice supervision in Australia. Young people under juvenile justice supervision are defined as those who are under the supervision or case management of a juvenile justice agency because they have:
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It does not contain information on young people who are not supervised or case managed by a juvenile justice agency (for example, young people supervised by an adult correctional agency). Files The JJ NMDS contains five files: client file, order file, detention file, order types file and centre file. Client file The client file contains demographic information on young people under juvenile justice supervision. Order file The order file contains information about the supervised orders handed down by courts and parole boards to young people under juvenile justice supervision. Detention file The detention file contains information about the periods of detention of young people under juvenile justice supervision. A detention period relates to the period of time a young person is detained in a juvenile justice remand or detention centre in relation to a particular detention type. A new reception into a detention centre, a change in legal status and a transfer to another detention centre all start a new detention period, while a release from a detention centre, a transfer to another centre or another jurisdiction, a change in legal status, an escape and an abscond all end a detention period. Order types file The order types file links the orders available in jurisdictions with the national order categories. Centre file The centre collection contains details on the centres administered and operated by juvenile justice agencies where young people are detained while under the supervision of the relevant juvenile justice agency on a supervised order or legal arrangement. Juvenile justice departments The relevant juvenile justice departments whose clients are included in the JJ NMDS as at May 2009 are: In addition, other agencies have been included in the JJ NMDS where they supervise or case manage clients who are within the scope of the JJ NMDS, but are not administered by the above mentioned departments. These may include agencies such as police watch houses, for example. |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Statistical unit: | Juvenile Justice NMDS redevelopment Previous versions of the JJ NMDS comprised a client file, an episode file and a centre file. The episode file contained information on a young person’s most serious supervised order, that is, if a young person was being supervised in relation to more than one order at any one time, only information on the most serious order was collected. Following the review of the JJ NMDS by KPMG in 2008 and 2009, the JJ NMDS was redeveloped and the episode file was replaced with an order file and a detention file and an order type file was added to the NMDS. The client file and the centre file were not altered. A number of data items were added to the JJ NMDS and existing data item names were updated to match the data item names used in METeOR. The five files of the JJ NMDS have been replicated in METeOR as DSS clusters, and contain the Data Elements listed as follows: Juvenile Justice Client file cluster Person identifier Letters of family name Letters of given name Date of birth Sex Indigenous status First service contact date Juvenile Justice Order file cluster Person identifier Order identifier Episode start date Episode end date Episode type (juvenile justice) Order cessation reason Suburb/town/locality name (person) Postcode - Australian (person) Juvenile Justice Detention file cluster Person identifier Episode start date Episode end date Detention type (juvenile justice) Detention end reason Suburb/town/locality name (person) Postcode - Australian (person) Organisation name Postcode - Australian (service provider organisation) Juvenile Justice Order types file cluster Episode type, local Episode type (juvenile justice) Reporting period Juvenile Justice Centre file cluster Organisation name Postcode - Australian (service provider organisation) Design capacity Number of detainees Custody escapes cluster Custody location Number of escapes Reporting period |
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Implementation start date: | 01/07/2009 |
Comments: | Last reviewed September 2011. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Juvenile Justice Data Sub-Committee |
Steward: | Australian Youth Justice Administrators (AYJA) |
Origin: | Juvenile Justice National Minimum Data Set Version 1.3 Data Dictionary. AIHW Nov 2004. |
Reference documents: | Juvenile Justice National Minimum Data Set. Data Collection Manual for 2005-06. AIHW July 2006. Juvenile Justice National Minimum Data Set Version 3 Data Dictionary. AIHW July 2006. |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes Juvenile Justice NMDS 2007 Community Services (retired), Superseded 19/05/2010 Has been superseded by Juvenile Justice NMDS 2011–12 Youth Justice, Superseded 23/03/2023 |