Organisation
Sentencing Advisory Council (Vic)
Owning Institution:
Report
Guilty pleas in the higher courts: rates, timing, and discounts
Most people sentenced in the County Court and the Supreme Court of Victoria plead guilty, and their guilty plea results in a reduced sentence, according to this report.
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Major driving offences: current sentencing practices
Examines sentencing in Victorian courts over the seven years to July 2013 for culpable driving causing death, dangerous driving causing death, negligently causing serious injury (where driving related), and dangerous driving causing serious injury.
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Reoffending following sentence in Victoria: a statistical overview
Examines reoffending patterns for 63,366 people sentenced in Victorian criminal courts between July 2004 and June 2014.
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Changes to sentencing practice: young adult offenders
This report examines the effect on young adult offenders of recent changes to sentencing options in Victoria. In particular, the analysis shows an increase in the use of the community correction order, a sentencing option introduced in Victoria in 2012. Introduction 1.1 This report examines the extent to which recent changes to intermediate sentencing options...
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Major drug offences: current sentencing practices
Examines sentences from 2008-09 to 2012-13 for cultivating a commercial quantity of narcotic plants, trafficking in a drug of dependence in a commercial quantity, and trafficking in a drug of dependence in a large commercial quantity.