Juvenile Justice DSS 2016–18

Identifying and definitional attributes

• Youth Justice, Qualified 29/06/2022

The Juvenile Justice DSS (JJ DSS) 2016–18 contains information about young people under youth justice supervision in Australia. Young people under youth justice supervision are defined as those who are under the supervision or case management of a youth justice agency because they have:

• committed or allegedly committed an offence between the ages of 10–17 years

OR

• committed or allegedly committed an offence when aged over 17 years and who are treated as young people due to their vulnerability or immaturity.

It does not contain information on young people who are supervised or case managed by organisations other than a youth justice agency (for example, young people supervised by an adult correctional agency).

The JJ DSS 2016–18 contains the Juvenile Justice National Minimum Data Set (JJ NMDS) 2016–18, two additional data element clusters, and one additional data element.

The JJ NMDS 2016–18 contains four data element clusters all of which contain unit record level data:

• Juvenile Justice Client file cluster
• Juvenile Justice Order file cluster
• Juvenile Justice Detention file cluster
• Juvenile Justice Order types file cluster.

The two additional, optional data element clusters are:

The Juvenile Justice Charge cluster, which contains the Australian and New Zealand Standard Offence Classification (ANZSOC) code of all charges relating to unsentenced supervised orders (e.g. supervised bail, remand).

The Juvenile Justice Offence file cluster, which contains the Australian and New Zealand Standard Offence Classification (ANZSOC) code of all offences relating to sentenced supervised orders (e.g. sentenced detention, probation).

The additional data element is:

Person—country of birth, code (SACC 2016) NNNN is an optional item which can be collected as part of the client file.

Collection and usage attributes

Person

In November 2012 the Australasian Juvenile Justice Administrators (AJJA) agreed to retain their name (and the name of the collection), but to change the preferred terminology within the collection from ‘juvenile justice’ to ‘youth justice’.

Source and reference attributes

AIHW (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare) 2004. Juvenile justice national minimum data set version 1.3 data dictionary. Canberra: AIHW.

AIHW (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare) 2017. Juvenile justice national minimum data set, data collection manual 2016–17. Canberra: AIHW.

Relational attributes