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Long-term sentencing trends in Victoria

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Sentencing Prison sentences Criminal law Crime Victoria
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Long-term sentencing trends in Victoria 1.12 MB
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This report reviews 20 years of data in the Council's Sentencing Snapshots to identify changes in sentencing practices in the higher courts for a select number of offences:

  • murder, manslaughter and culpable driving causing death
  • various cause injury offences
  • drug trafficking and cultivation offences
  • rape, incest and a number of child sex offences.

The report also outlines offender numbers, imprisonment rates, imprisonment lengths and non-parole periods for each offence.

 

Publication Details
ISBN:
978-1-925071-70-2
Copyright:
Sentencing Advisory Council, State of Victoria 2022
Access Rights Type:
open
Post date:
13 Sep 2022

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