Juvenile Offender – Diversion through JJTs - dataset 1995-2005

This dataset describes juvenile offenders and their offences for the period March 1995 to end of 2005 that were dealt with through referral to Juvenile Justice Teams (JJTs). JJTs were a form of juvenile diversion introduced in March 1995 through the Young Offenders Act. Data was sourced from the WA Police and the WA Department of the Attorney-General.
The data is de-identified and contains a unique identifier, which distinguishes one offender from another. Each offender has a different identifier and every event record for that offender is allocated the same identifier. The aim of the identifier is to link records that are believed to belong to the same person from two or more different datasets. The unique identifier was created through the INOIS system (Ferrante, 1993).
The data for this study was made available through long-standing agreements between a number of government agencies in Western Australia and the Crime Research Centre, University of Western Australia.