4515.0 - Federal Defendants, Selected States and Territories, 2008-09

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Defendants with federal offences most commonly charged with fraud: ABS (Media Release)

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INTRODUCTION

This chapter presents information about the characteristics of defendants finalised in Australia's criminal courts charged with federal offences during 2008-09. Characteristics of defendants include age, sex, their principal federal offence, and sentence outcomes, as well as a count of the total number of federal offences heard by the criminal courts during 2008-09. Offence data in this chapter are based on ASOC08. Data are presented for all states and territories except Tasmania. Data from Tasmania were not readily available.