Indigenous Justice Clearinghouse Research Brief 19 provides new insights into Indigenous women’s offending by examining previously unpublished police and court data for the period 2010-2012. While there are differences across the selected Australian jurisdictions, the authors find that the offences that most often appeared in charges, court proceedings and convictions were driving and traffic offences...

Examines reoffending patterns for 63,366 people sentenced in Victorian criminal courts between July 2004 and June 2014.

This report deals with criminal cases finalised in 2014 in the New South Wales Local, Children’s, District and Supreme Courts. Introduction While criminal disposals have increased in the Local and Higher Courts, they have fallen in the Children’s Court. In the Local Court, the number of defendants with a finalised matter increased by 4.4 per...

Provides the context in which organised crime operates in Australia and gives an overview of each of the key illicit markets and the activities which fundamentally enable serious and organised crime. Summary The Organised Crime in Australia 2015 report provides the most comprehensive contemporary profile of serious and organised crime in Australia. The report provides...

Prison population forecasting is fraught with difficulty. Many factors affect the size of the prison population, including levels of crime, the number of arrests, the proportion of arrestees convicted, the proportion refused bail, the proportion given a prison sentence, the average length of prison sentences, the proportion of offenders released to parole at the end...