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POI. The NSW Department of Juvenile Justice also plays a significant role byadministering Youth Justice Conferences, which are the mechanism for juvenilediversions in that State. The NSW Police data does not reflect the activity of YouthJustice Conferences.In Victoria, data on apprehensions describe offences charged by police as either an‘arrest’ or ‘summons’, and a diversion as a ‘caution’. Queensland Police datapresent diversionary methods of processing as ‘caution’ and ‘communityconference’, in contrast to an ‘arrest’, ‘notice to appear’, ‘summons’ or ‘warrant’. InWA, a juvenile diversion includes both ‘cautioning’ and ‘referrals to juvenile justiceteams’ by the police. A ‘formal caution’ and ‘transfer to family conference’ issuedby police in SA are classified as juvenile diversions. For the NT, the data refer toapprehension cases rather than individual persons; therefore, a number of cases canrelate to one person.Indigenous status in Victoria, WA and SA is completed on the basis of the attendingofficer’s subjective assessment of the person’s appearance and is recorded foroperational purposes only. In NSW, Queensland and the NT, police officers askjuveniles whether they are an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander.Data from Tasmania and the ACT have not been published in this Report. In someinstances, this is because there is no Indigenous identifier currently in place or dataare not of sufficient size or quality to publish. It is anticipated that in future years amore extensive and comparable set of data will be available from jurisdictions.Data in the following section have not been adjusted to control for factors whichmight affect the likelihood of a juvenile being diverted from court by police. Thesefactors include the nature of the offence and the offending history of the youngperson.36

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