Crime and criminal justice statistics

Age and gender of prisoners

Further information

Charts/tables and fact sheets

• Corrections : Prisons (Chapter 6 from Australian crime : facts and figures 2006)
• Older Australians in prison, 2006
• Federal prisoners by major offence and sex, 2004
• Incarcerated women prison population 1991-1999
• Female prisoners

See also Juvenile detention statistics

Other publications and data sources

• Corrective services, Australia
  Australian Bureau of Statistics, quarterly report
• Prisoners in Australia
  Australian Bureau of Statistics, annual report
• Report on government services
  Productivity Commission. A major annual report that examines the performance of governments in Australia in the important service areas of education, health, justice, emergency management, community services and housing. The justice chapter of the report includes information and data on corrective services
• Drug Use Careers of Offenders (DUCO)
  The DUCO project measured drug use amongst incarcerated male, female and juvenile offenders. Data from DUCO may be used to assess the role of treatment both within and outside the correctional system, examine the intersection of drug use patterns and criminal careers and to explore issues concerning links between drug use and crime.
• Women prisoners and correctional programs
  Margaret Cameron, 2001
• Australian corrections : main demographic characteristics of prison population
  Carlos Carcach and Anna Grant, 2000
• Imprisonment in Australia : the offence composition of Australian correctional populations, 1988 and 1998
  Carlos Carcach and Anna Grant, 2000
• Imprisonment in Australia : the remand population
  Carlos Carcach and Anna Grant, 2000
• Imprisonment in Australia : sentenced populations
  Carlos Carcach and John Chisholm, 2000
• Elderly inmates : issues for Australia
  Anna Grant, 1999

Related links

• Statistics: Age and gender of alleged offenders; Female prisoners
• Topics: Corrections; Young people and crime; Female offenders