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WHAT'S NEW
NEWSLETTERS
STATISTICAL HEADLINES
WHAT'S NEW
DIRECTORY OF FAMILY AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE STATISTICS
A new on-line reference tool, the Directory of Family and Domestic Violence Statistics (cat. no. 4533.0) was released in December 2011. It complements the Conceptual Framework for Family and Domestic Violence, Australia, 2009 (ABS, cat. no. 4529.0) and aims to improve community awareness of statistical information in this field by providing a single multi-disciplinary reference point for data sources across the health, welfare, family and community services and crime and justice sectors. The Directory contains detailed information about many sources of Australian and State / Territory government statistical data relating to Family and Domestic Violence, including the collection methodology, data items available, contact details for obtaining data and hyperlinks to publications.
IN FOCUS: CRIME AND JUSTICE STATISTICS
In Focus: Crime and Justice Statistics (cat. no. 4524.0) is an ad hoc publication series comprised of feature articles that present analysis and commentary on a range of topics using ABS Crime and Justice statistical sources. Three articles have been published to date: 'Youth victimisation and offending: a statistical snapshot,' (September 2011); 'In the eye of the beholder: perceptions of social disorder in Australia,' (December 2011), and 'Exploring relationships between crime victimisation and social wellbeing' (July 2012).
SENTENCE LENGTH
Data on sentence length have been published for the last two years of Criminal Courts, Australia (cat. no. 4513.0). The 2011 publication for the first time included statistics about custodial sentences handed down in the criminal jurisdiction of the Higher (Supreme and Intermediate) Courts of Australia, for all states and territories, except Tasmania. For the 2012 publication data on custodial sentences were published for the criminal jurisdiction of the Higher and Lower (Magistrates' and Children's) Courts of Australia, for all states and territories, except the Tasmanian Higher Criminal Courts and the Australian Capital Territory Lower Criminal Courts.
INFORMATION PAPER
The ABS released Measuring Victims of Crime: A Guide to Using Administrative and Survey data (cat. No. 4500.0.55.001) in June 2011 to explore the differences between administrative data sourced from police agencies and crime victimisation survey data using analysis of recent statistics published by the ABS. The paper aims to increase community understanding of how the experiences of victims of crime in Australia are measured and to explore why the findings from different data sources may differ. A working example of comparisons between the two different data sources is used to demonstrate the impact of varying data collection methodologies on data for a range of offence types. The paper also offers guidance about which data source is best suited to particular research questions.
AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND STANDARD OFFENCE CLASSIFICATION (ANZSOC)
In June 2011, the third Edition of the Australian and New Zealand Standard Offence Classification (ANZSOC), 2011 (cat. no. 1234.0) was released. No substantial changes were made to the classification, however the revised title reflects the international use of the framework to classify criminal behaviour and highlights the collaborative work occurring between Australia and New Zealand.
The ASOC provides a basis for the standardised collection, analysis and dissemination of offence data within crime and justice statistics. Following a substantial review of the classification, including extensive consultation across the crime and justice sector, the second edition of the Australian Standard Offence Classification (ASOC), 2008, (Second Edition) (cat. no. 1234.0) was released in August 2008. The revised ASOC (ASOC08) was adopted to reflect changes that have occurred in criminal legislation since the first version was released in 1997 (ASOC97), as well as satisfying emerging user requirements for offence data. The revised ASOC was implemented in crime and justice collections from 2009, with the following publications being the first of each collection to provide data using the revised classification:
Federal Defendants, Selected States and Territories, 2010-11 (cat. no. 4515.0)
Prisoners in Australia, 2009 (cat.no. 4517.0)
Criminal Courts Australia, 2010-11 (cat. no. 4513.0)
Recorded Crime - Offenders, 2008-09 (cat. no. 4519.0)
Recorded Crime - Victims, Australia, 2009 (cat. no. 4510.0)
NATIONAL OFFENCE INDEX
Following the release of the Australian Standard Offence Classification (ASOC), 2008, (Second Edition) (cat. no. 1234.0), the ABS has conducted a review of the related tool, the National Offence Index (NOI) (cat. no. 1234.0.55.001). The NOI is used to determine the principal offence in a number of ABS collections. The updated NOI was published as a stand alone publication in July 2009 and has been used in Prisoners in Australia (cat.no. 4517.0) from 2009 and Criminal Courts, Australia (cat. no. 4513.0) from 2008-09.
NEWSLETTERS
CRIME AND JUSTICE NEWSLETTER
The National Centre for Crime and Justice Statistics (NCCJS) produces an informative Newsletter (cat. no. 4500.0). If you would like to receive a copy of the NCCJS Newsletter, the free subscription service on the ABS website can automatically notify you of new releases of ABS products online. To sign up, when viewing a product, click on the 'Free email notification service' link at the top of the page, and this will automatically send you a notification of updates to this ABS product. Alternatively, you can visit the ABS Email Notification Service page to set up your subscription.
STATISTICAL HEADLINES
CRIME VICTIMISATION
Alcohol, drugs perceived to be involved in most assaults (cat. no. 4530.0; 21 February 2012)
National crime rates fall (cat. no. 4530.0; 17 February 2011)
Australian households experience 1.6 million incidents of property damage (cat. no. 4530.0; 18 February 2010)
5% of Australians aged over 15 years were victims of personal fraud (cat. no. 4528.0; 27 June 2008)
Robbery victims increased by 613 to 17,988 in 2007 (cat. no. 4510.0; 26 June 2008)
RECORDED CRIME - VICTIMS
More than a quarter of sexual assault victims were aged 10 to 14 years (cat. no. 4510.0; 23 June 2011)
Property crimes continue to decrease (cat. no. 4510.0; 3 June 2010)
Motor vehicle thefts have halved since the start of the decade (cat. no. 4510.0; 4 June 2009)
RECORDED CRIME - OFFENDERS
Offending peaks in teenage years (cat. no. 4519.0; 9 February 2012)
Police initiated actions against one in ten 18 year old males during 2009-10 (cat. no. 4519.0; 24 February 2011)
COURTS
6 year low in number of defendants finalised in the Magistrates' Courts (cat. no. 4513.0; 24 February 2012)
Number of defendants finalised in the criminal courts lowest since 2006-07 (cat. no. 4513.0; 27 January 2011)
Over one third of defendants in the criminal courts in 2008-09 were aged under 25 (cat. no. 4513.0 ;12 March 2010)
Traffic offences up 25% over five years in Magistrates' Courts (cat. no. 4513.0; 25 February 2009)
Children's court - 1,625 offenders serve time: ABS (cat. no. 4513.0; 25 January 2008)
FEDERAL DEFENDANTS
The number of federal offences finalised in the criminal courts fell 14% between 2009-10 and 2010-11 (cat. no. 4515.0; 19 June 2012)
The average number of federal offences per defendant increased from 2.5 in 2008–09 to 3.5 in 2009–10 (cat. no. 4515.0; 28 April 2011)
Three quarters of federal defendants were proven guilty in 2008-09 (cat. no. 4515.0; 27 May 2010)
PERSONAL FRAUD
Personal fraud costs Australians $1.4 billion (cat. no. 4528.0; 19 April 2012)
Nearly $1 billion dollars lost by Australians to personal fraud: ABS (cat. no. 4528.0; 27 June 2008)
PRISONERS
The number of female prisoners increased by 8% since 2011 (cat. no. 4517.0; 6 December 2012)
Persons on community service orders decreased 8% from the June quarter 2011 (cat. no. 4512.0; 13 September 2012)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander unsentenced prisoners increased 10% from the March quarter 2011 (cat. no. 4512.0; 14 June 2012)
Federal sentenced persons increased 13% from the December quarter 2010 (cat. no. 4512.0; 15 March 2012)
The number of adult prisoners decreased by 2% since 2010 (cat. no. 4517.0; 8 December 2011)
Unsentenced prisoners increased by 5% from the September quarter 2010 (cat. no. 4512.0; 24 November 2011)
Persons on community service orders decreased by 11% from the June quarter 2010 (cat. no. 4512.0; 15 September 2011)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in community-based-corrections decreased by 2% from the previous quarter (cat. no. 4512.0; 15 June 2011)
The number of persons in full-time custody fell for the second successive quarter (cat. no. 4512.0; 17 March 2011)
Over half (55%) of all prisoners in custody at 30 June 2010 had previously served a sentence in an adult prison (cat. no. 4517.0; 9 December 2010)
Average daily number of full-time prisoners decreased by 2% from the previous quarter (cat. no. 4512.0; 25 November 2010)
The male imprisonment rate was 13 times higher than the female imprisonment rate for the June quarter 2010 (cat. no. 4512.0; 16 September 2010)
Persons in community-based corrections in Australia decreased by 1% from the December quarter 2009 (cat. no. 4512.0; 17 June 2010)
Average daily number of full-time prisoners increased 5% from the December 2008 quarter (cat. no. 4512.0 ;18 March 2010)
Women prisoners increase by 57% in ten years (cat. no. 4517.0; 10 December 2009)
There were 85,470 persons under the authority of corrective services during the September Quarter 2009 (cat. no. 4512.0; 26 November 2009)
Average daily number of full-time prisoners increased 3% from the previous quarter (cat. no. 4512.0; 17 September 2009)
More than half of prisoners are repeat offenders (cat. no. 4517.0; 11 December 2008) |
This page first published 11 July 2006, last updated 12 December 2012 |
