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ABOUT THIS PUBLICATION
This publication presents nationally comparable statistics relating to the criminal jurisdiction of the Higher (Supreme and Intermediate), Magistrates' and Children's Courts across Australia for the period 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007. Some time series data are also included where available. The statistics describe the characteristics of defendants, including information on the offences and sentences associated with those defendants.
Additional data are available in the Supplementary Datacubes (cat. no. 4513.0).
DATA CONSISTENCY
The statistics are sourced from the national Criminal Courts collection conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and have been compiled according to national standards in order to maximise consistency between the states and territories. The Explanatory Notes, Appendices and Glossary provide detailed information on the data sources, counting rules, terminology, classifications and other technical aspects associated with these statistics.
CHANGES IN THIS ISSUE
The format of this issue has been changed from previous issues. Data is now presented by each court level in separate chapters.
Information is presented for the first time nationally on the characteristics of defendants finalised in the criminal jurisdiction of the Children's Courts, including offence and sentence information associated with those defendants. Previously, these data were published as experimental and had been included as an Appendix in the publication.
ROUNDING
Discrepancies may occur between sums of the component items and totals across tables due to rounding and randomisation.
INFORMATION ON ABS CRIME AND JUSTICE
More information about ABS activities in the field of crime and justice statistics is available from the Crime and Justice theme page. Details of other ABS publications relating to crime and justice statistics can be found in the Explanatory Notes paragraph 80.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The ABS acknowledges the valuable contribution of the Board of Management, the National Criminal Courts Statistics Advisory Group, the Court Practitioners' Group and the staff of the various agencies that provide the statistics presented in this publication.
INQUIRIES
For further information about these and related statistics, contact the National Information and Referral Service on 1300 135 070 or Terence Byrnes on Melbourne (03) 9615 7681.
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