Sentencing Adult Family Violence Offenders in Victoria
The Council is preparing a report on the sentencing of adult family violence offenders in Victoria. The project will examine sentencing outcomes for family violence offenders in the Magistrates’ Court, County Court and Supreme Court from July 2017 to June 2024. The project team will use the family violence indicator employed by police and the courts to identify cases in which at least one offence occurred in the context of family violence.
The report will examine:
- the prevalence of family violence offences recorded by police and sentenced by courts
- sentencing outcomes for family violence offences, including trends over time
- factors associated with offenders receiving prison sentences in the Magistrates’ Court, and longer prison sentences in the higher courts
- reoffending patterns of family violence offenders.
