Crime and criminal justice statistics

Prisoner offences

Prisoners sentenced for violent, property and other offences, percentage of total prisoners, 1986-2005

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Source: Australian Institute of Criminology 2007. Australian crime : facts and figures 2006. Canberra: AIC. http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/facts/2006/

Corrections : Prisons (Chapter 6 from Australian crime : facts and figures 2006)
- Sentenced prisoners by most serious offence, by gender, number and percentage, 2005
Percentage of male and female prisoners by major federal offence category, 13/12/2004

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.
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
Imprisonment in Australia: trends in prison populations & imprisonment rates 1982-1998
Carlos Carcach and Anna Grant, 1999