Children sentenced in court VIC, Australia 2008-2017
In 2017, there were just over 1,900 children who were sentenced in court in Victoria, Australia. The number of children who were sentenced in court in Victoria has steadily declined over the previous ten years. This can be seen from 2008, in which there were more than 6,000 children who were sentenced in court in Victoria, Australia. In 2015, a youth diversion program was launched in Victoria offering an alternative to a formal sentence, which requires child offenders to accept responsibility for the offence they committed.
