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Appendix 2: Sector specific issues in criminal justice
Police
- Incidence of certain offence types (eg. sexual assault, robbery).
- Distribution of crime.
- Relationship between drugs and alcohol and crime (eg. burglary rates) and the impact of treatment programs.
- Crimes associated with firearms.
- Non-reporting of crime.
- Crime prevention.
- Fear of crime and perceptions of safety.
- Community perceptions of police.
- The need for time and place of offence in a single national collection.
- Information on victim and offender ethnicity and Indigenous status.
Courts
- Delay in hearing cases.
- Case backlogs.
- Cost.
- Fairness in sentencing (including appropriateness and consistency of various penalties for various offences).
- Relationship between legal representation and case management and outcome.
- Effectiveness of different sanctions.
Prisons
- Contract management in relation to privatisation of prisons (eg. monitoring service delivery, quantifying prisoner movements).
- Impact of sentencing and bail refusals on prisons (ie. demand for prison accommodation and potential for overcrowding).
- Forecasting/projecting prisoner population (need trend analysis of sentenced and remand prisoners).
- Sentence management, planning and calculation.
- Classification of prisoners (eg. nature of offending, category of detainment/security/protection) and factors underlying reclassification.
- Understanding services/programs that need to be provided.
- Mental health issues among prisoner population (has consequences for treatment programs).
- Drug testing.
- Deaths in custody.
- Escapes.
Community Corrections
- Proportion of corrections clients in community corrections.
- Effective use of community corrections.
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