New Snapshots Released
Today the Sentencing Advisory Council released five Sentencing Snapshots on causing serious injury intentionally, causing serious injury recklessly, causing injury intentionally or recklessly, affray and incest.
The reports contain previously unpublished statistics on sentence outcomes in the higher courts of Victoria between 2002-03 and 2006-07, as well as the age and gender of people sentenced for each of the five offences.
The report on incest is the first that the Council has released on this offence, while the four remaining reports are updates of Snapshots released in September 2006.
Highlights of these Snapshots include:
- 527 people were sentenced for the principal offence of causing serious injury intentionally in the higher courts between 2002-03 and 2006-07.
- Almost four in ten (37%) of the 505 people sentenced for the principal offence of causing serious injury recklessly received a period of imprisonment. The length of imprisonment terms ranged from two months and fifteen days with no non-parole period to fifteen years with a non-parole period of ten years.
- One quarter (25%) of the 497 people sentenced over the five year period for causing injury received a community based order, while 20% were sentenced to immediate imprisonment.
- The most common sentence for the principle offence of affray was a community based order.The most common offence finalised in conjunction with affray was causing injury (8.9% of all cases).