TY  - Report
AU  - Simon Corben
AU  - Jacqueline Fitzgerald


PY  - 2012
T1  - Why is the NSW prison population falling?
PB  - NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research


DO  - https://doi.org/APO-31762
UR  - https://apo.org.au/node/31762

AB  - After steadily increasing for more than a decade, from mid 2009 the NSW prison population started falling. This paper identifies why this has occurred. 

Method: The study relied upon administrative data. Corrections data was considered to gauge the size, timing and nature of changes in the prison population. Police recorded crime and court data were analysed to measure changes in offending and sentencing which eventually have a bearing on prison numbers.
ER  -