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Australian crime : facts and figures 2003

Community corrections

Average daily community corrections population by Indigenous status, rate per 100,000 adults, 2000-2001 and 2001-2002*
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* Excludes Victoria.

Sources

  • Australian Bureau of Statistics 2003, Population by age and sex : Australian states and territories 1997 to 2002, cat. no. 3201.0, ABS, Canberra.
  • Steering Committee for the Review of Commonwealth/State Service Provision 2003, Report on government services, volume 1 : education, justice, emergency management, Productivity Commission, Canberra. <http://www.pc.gov.au/gsp/reports/rogs/2003/>

What this chart shows

  • In 2001-2002, the Indigenous community corrections rate was ten times higher than the rate for non-Indigenous offenders, at 2,733 per 100,000 population compared with 267.
  • The community corrections rate for Indigenous people decreased slightly between 2000-2001 and 2001-2002, from 2,996 per 100,000 population to 2,733.

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