4524.0 – In Focus: Crime and Justice Statistics, December 2011
This publication presents analysis and commentary on a range of topics using ABS Crime and Justice statistical sources. The December release provides a detailed analysis of the perception of social disorder issues in Australia.
4533.0 - Directory of Family and Domestic Violence Statistics
The Directory is a new on-line reference tool, designed to improve community awareness of statistical information in this field by providing a single multi-disciplinary reference point for information about data sources across the health, welfare, family and community services and crime and justice sectors. The Directory contains detailed information about many sources of Australian and State / Territory government statistical data relating to Family and Domestic Violence, including the collection methodology, data items available, contact details for obtaining data and hyperlinks to publications.
4513.0 - Criminal Courts (additional information)
This additional information presents statistics about custodial sentences handed down in the criminal jurisdiction of the Higher (Supreme and Intermediate) Courts of Australia, for the period 1 July 2009 to 30 June 2010, for all states and territories, except Tasmania.
4524.0 - In Focus: Crime and Justice Statistics, September 2011
This publication presents analysis and commentary on a range of topics using ABS Crime and Justice statistical sources. The first release brought together findings from several ABS collections to provide an overview of youth victims and youth offenders. The upcoming release in late 2011 will provide detailed analysis of the perception of social disorder issues in Australia.
4512.0 – Corrective Services, Australia, September 2011
This publication contains national information about persons in adult custody and community-based corrections in Australia. Quarterly information is presented for each state and territory. Information available includes: sex; age; imprisonment rates; legal status (sentenced, unsentenced); type of custody (secure, open); sentenced receptions; federal prisoners and type of community-based corrective services orders. Indigenous data are also available.
4517.0 – Prisoners in Australia, 2011
This publication presents information from the National Prisoner Census about persons held in Australian prisons on the night of 30 June 2011. The National Prisoner Census covers all prisoners in the legal custody of adult corrective services in adult prisons. These statistics provide a profile of the legal status and sentence details as well as demographic characteristics of Australian adult prisoners.
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There were 17,757 victims of sexual assault recorded by police, 25% of these victims were aged 10 to 14 years. [1]
More than a third (34%) of federal defendants had a principal (federal) offence of fraud, deception and related offences. [2]
The most common principal offences for male offenders were acts intended to cause injury and public order offences (both 20%); for female offenders it was theft (30%). [3]
The most prevalent offence types were acts intended to cause injury in the Higher Courts (22%), traffic offences in the Magistrates Courts (44%) and theft in the Children's Courts (20%). [4]
The most serious offence or charge for nearly 1 in 5 prisoners in custody was acts intending to cause injury (5,805 prisoners). [5]
The ABS Crime Victimisation Survey 2009-10 found that the victimisation rates for robbery, face-to-face threatened assault and non face-to-face threatened assault all significantly decreased since the 2008–09 survey. [6]
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