This report presents key findings from community panels about offence seriousness and how participants weighed the factors that render different offences more or less serious. The research was conducted as part of the Maximum Penalties project, a review by the Sentencing Advisory Council of the maximum penalties for 250 offences to be included in a...

Sentencing Children and Young People in Victoria covers the operation, functions, and philosophy of the Criminal Division of the Children’s Court. It presents a statistical profile of offences sentenced in the court, and identifies and analyses changes over a ten-year period (2000 to 2009 inclusive). The report also contains data on children and young people...

When sentencing an offender to a period of imprisonment of at least one year, Victorian courts ordinarily fix a non-parole period as part of the sentence. This means that, when the non-parole period expires, the Adult Parole Board has discretion to release the offender into the community to serve the remainder of the sentence on...

The draft report is a culmination of a series of investigations by the study team and aims to provide the most comprehensive understanding and in-depth analysis undertaken into building a rail line to Rowville. This report summarises the work of the first stage of the Rowville Rail Study. The first stage of the study has...

This statistical report examines data on the operation of sentence appeals in Victoria. In particular, the report addresses the absence of data available on sentence appeals brought by offenders and the Crown and on patterns of decision-making in sentence appeal cases heard by the Court of Appeal.