DATA ELEMENTS AND DATA ELEMENT CONCEPTS
DEFENDANT
IDENTIFYING AND DEFINITIONAL ATTRIBUTES
Metadata type:
DATA ELEMENT CONCEPT Version: 1
Definition:
A person or organisation against whom one or more criminal charges have been laid, typically relating to the same criminal incident, and which are heard together as the one unit of work by a court level.
Context:
The defendant is the principal counting unit for the ABS criminal courts collection and Court Administration Data Collection (CADC).
The CADC and ABS collections do not enumerate distinct individuals, as one individual or organisation may be involved in a number of separate criminal cases active within the courts during the reference period. In such instances the defendant will be counted for each case in which they appear.
RELATIONAL ATTRIBUTES
Verfication rules:
A defendant always relates to a person or organisation within a case.
Related metadata:
Is related to the data element concepts:
Lodgment
Active Pending Defendant
Finalised Defendant
Is described by the data elements:
Age
Date of Birth
Indigenous Status
Sex
ADMINISTRATIVE ATTRIBUTES
Source document:
1. Higher Criminal Courts Collection Manual
2. Magistrates' Criminal Courts Collection Manual
3. 2004 Data Collection Manual
Source organisation:
1. Australian Bureau of Statistics
2. Australian Bureau of Statistics
3. Court Administration Working Group
History:
Commenced 2005
Comments:
None
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