Media Releases

15 September 2021 - A report released today finds that the number of offenders aged 60 and over being sentenced in Victoria has increased substantially over the past 10 years, well beyond the growth in this age group in the Victorian population.

28 June 2021 - A new report released today finds that threat offending is associated with exceptionally high rates of prior and subsequent offending.

22 June 2021 - A report released today by the Sentencing Advisory Council shows that sex offences in Victoria are receiving longer prison sentences than they were 10 years ago.

8 April 2021 - A report released today by the Sentencing Advisory Council finds 1.7% of people serving a community correction order (CCO) were sentenced in the four years to 30 June 2020 for a serious offence committed while serving their CCO.

27 October 2020 - The Sentencing Advisory Council today released the first study in Australia of how image-based sexual abuse is sentenced.

29 September 2020 - The Sentencing Advisory Council today released a report examining case outcomes for children held on remand* in Victoria in 2017–18. It reveals that two-thirds of remanded children did not receive a custodial sentence.

30 June 2020 - A new report released today by the Sentencing Advisory Council has found that under 2% of people serving a community correction order (CCO) were sentenced for a serious offence in 2018–19 that had been committed while on the CCO.

2 June 2020 - The Sentencing Advisory Council today released the third and final report in its series on crossover kids: children sentenced or diverted in the Children’s Court of Victoria who are also known to the Child Protection Service.

27 April 2020 - The Sentencing Advisory Council’s popular You be the Judge educational session will be delivered online via Zoom for Law Week 2020.

2 April 2020 - The Sentencing Advisory Council today released its second report on ‘crossover kids’, children who have had contact with both the child protection system and the youth justice system.