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ABOUT THIS PUBLICATION
This publication presents nationally comparable statistics on federal defendants finalised in the Higher (Supreme and Intermediate), Magistrates' and Children's Courts within Australia for the period 1 July 2014 to 30 June 2015. Federal Defendants include persons or organisations charged with at least one offence against commonwealth legislation within the reference period. The statistics are based on administrative records held by state and territory agencies responsible for courts administration and describe the characteristics of federal defendants, including information on offences, case outcomes and sentences associated with those defendants. Selected time series data are also included where available.
CHANGES IN THIS ISSUE
Publication tables
For the 2013-14 issue of this publication, data on federal offences were included as a supplementary release to the initial release of the publication. This supplementary release included data on federal offences presented by the Australian and New Zealand Standard Offence Classification (ANZSOC) as well by an alternative grouping (Federal offence group) created to compile groups of commonwealth offences of a particular interest to users based on Act and Section information. It also included an additional three tables showing federal defendants presented by the federal offence group for the first time. All tables that were published in the 2013-14 supplementary release are included in the 2014-15 issue of the publication.
In addition, the publication tables are accompanied by a guide to finding Federal Defendants data in the publication tables in the form of an Excel spreadsheet that allows the user to filter which tables include the data items that are of interest. This guide is available in the Downloads tab.
DATA COMPARABILITY
The statistics presented in this publication are sourced from the national Criminal Courts collection conducted by the 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.
ROUNDING
Proportions and percentages cited in the publication text have been rounded to the nearest whole number.
INFORMATION ON ABS CRIME AND JUSTICE STATISTICS
For a listing of ABS publications relating to crime and justice statistics, refer to the Related Information tab.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The ABS acknowledges the valuable contribution of the Board of Management of the National Criminal Courts Statistics Unit, 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
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