Prison sentences
Alternative labels
Imprisonment
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.
Report
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.
Report
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.
Statistics
New South Wales custody statistics: quarterly update March 2015
This report presents 24 months of reception, discharge and custody population data and comparisons between the current and previous quarter for age, gender, indigenous status, most serious offence and the average length of stay. Separate figures are presented for juveniles and adults. The counting unit is a cust odial episode. An individual will be counted...
Briefing paper
The 2015 NSW prison population forecast
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...