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Australian Crime: Facts and Figures 2002

Persons under corrective services

Offenders, by type of corrective program, 2000-2001
Pie chart
*Includes periodic detention (only available in NSW and the ACT).

Source: Steering Committee for the Review of Commonwealth/State Government Service Provision 2002, Report on government services 2002, vol. 1, Productivity Commission, Canberra.

What this chart shows

  • Seven out of 10 offenders managed by corrective service authorities were placed in community-based programs.
  • Twenty-seven per cent of offenders served a sentence in prison.

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