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Australian Crime: Facts and Figures 2002
Prisons: Most serious offence
Prisoners sentenced for violent offences, percentage of total sentenced prisoners and ratio of violent offence to property offence 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 percentage of sentenced prisoners convicted of violent offences (line graph and left axis) and the ratio of the rate of imprisonment for violent offences to the imprisonment rate for property offences (bar graph and right axis).
What this chart shows
- The percentage of prisoners sentenced for violent offences increased from 45% in 1983 to 51% in 1993 and declined to around 46% thereafter.
- Prisoners sentenced for violent offences outnumbered those sentenced for property offences. The ratio between the two populations increased from 1.5 in 1983 to 2.5 in 2001.