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Australian Crime: Facts and Figures 2002
Prisons: Gender
Prisoners by gender, rate per 100,000 adults and ratio of male to female imprisonment rates, 1983-2001
Sources:
- Australian Bureau of Statistics 1981-2001, Population by age and sex: Australian states and territories (various issues), cat. no. 3201.0.
- Australian Institute of Criminology 1983-1993, Australian Prisoners (various issues), Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra.
- Australian Bureau of Statistics 1994-2002, Prisoners in Australia (various issues), cat. no. 4517.0.
This figure depicts the imprisonment rate of male and female persons (line graph and left axis) and the ratio of male rates to female rates (bar graph and right axis), from 1983 to 2001.
What this chart shows
- Between 1983 and 2001, the overall imprisonment rate for males increased from 178 to 285 per 100,000 relevant population.
- The female rate of imprisonment was 7 per 100,000 in 1983 and 20 per 100,000 in 2001.
- Just over 6% of all prisoners were women.
- The number of male and female prisoners increased annually by an average of 4% and 8% respectively over the entire 18-year period.
- The ratio of male to female imprisonment rates declined from 25 in 1983 to 15 in 2001.