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Australian Crime: Facts and Figures 2002
Prisons: most serious offence
Sentenced prisoners by most serious offence, 2001
* Deception and related offences.
** Includes motor vehicle theft.
*** Includes other offences against the person and property, public order offences and driving offences.
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics 2002, Prisoners in Australia, cat. no. 4517.0.
What this chart shows
- The main offences for which male offenders were sentenced included break and enter, robbery and sex offences. For female offenders the main offences included drug offences and robbery.
- Male prisoners sentenced for the violent offences of homicide, assault, sex offences and robbery accounted for almost half of all sentenced male prisoners in 2001, whereas only one-third of female sentenced prisoners were incarcerated for violent offences.
- These patterns have remained relatively stable between 2000 and 2001.