Crime and justice

•  Two in five Australian adults had experienced violence since age of 15.
•  One in six women and one in seventeen men experienced partner violence.
•  One in two women and one in four men had experienced sexual harassment.
•  One in six women and one in ten men experienced abuse before age of 15.

• About one in three homicide offences (30%) and sexual assaults (33%) were family and domestic violence related  
• Victims of robbery increased for the fourth consecutive year to 11,775 victims
• There were 58,021 victims of motor vehicle theft in 2019, the highest number recorded in seven years

• 5.9% of women and 5.6% of men living with disability or a long-term health condition experienced violence in 2016
• The risk of violence was greater for adults with intellectual/psychological disability than those with physical disability

• 486,422 defendants were finalised in Criminal Courts, down 16% from 2018–19.
• 75% of defendants finalised were male.
• Traffic and vehicle regulatory offences remained the most common principal offence (34%).
• Fines were the most common principal sentence (53% of defendants with a guilty outcome).

• There were 41,668 prisoners, a 2% (666) increase for the quarter.

• Prisoners increased by 46% since the December quarter 2010.

• Persons serving community-based corrections (CBC) orders decreased by 1% (482) for the quarter, driven by Victoria which fell by 16% (1,681).

• Persons serving CBC orders increased by 40% since the December quarter 2010.

In the last 12 months:  

• 467,800 persons (2.3%) experienced physical assault
• 492,900 persons (2.4%) experienced face-to-face threatened assault
• 238,100 households (2.4%) experienced a break-in
• 448,800 households (4.6%) experienced malicious property damage

In 2019–20:

• there were 374,645 offenders proceeded against by police in Australia
• there was a 5% decrease in the number of offenders since 2018–19
• the number of recorded offenders was the lowest since the time series began in 2008–09