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Australian Crime: Facts and Figures 2002

Community corrections: Indigenous status

Average daily community corrections population by Indigenous status, rate per 100,000 adults, 1999-2000 and 2000-2001*
Bar chart
*Excludes Victoria.

Sources:

  • Australian Bureau of Statistics 2000-2001, Population by age and sex: Australian states and territories (various issues), cat. no. 3201.0.
  • Steering Committee for the Review of Commonwealth/State Government Service Provision 2002, Report on government services 2002, vol. 1, Productivity Commission, Canberra.
  • Australian Bureau of Statistics, High-level projections of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population, June 1996 to June 2006, Unpublished data.

What this chart shows

  • In 2000-2001, the Indigenous community corrections rate was seven times higher than the rate for non-Indigenous offenders.
  • The community corrections rate for Indigenous persons increased slightly between 1999-2000 and 2000-2001.

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