Date of Publication
25 November 2025
This morning, we released updated sentencing data for the higher courts in our SACStat sentencing database.
This release provides new data for 237 offences sentenced in the Victorian higher courts (the County and Supreme Courts) over the five years to 30 June 2024. SACStat now includes data for 36 federal offences and 201 state offences sentenced in the higher courts.
According to the latest data:
- the most prevalent principal proven offences in the higher courts were armed robbery (569 cases), aggravated burglary (460 cases) and intentionally causing injury (360 cases)
- the state offences with the longest charge-level median prison sentences were murder (23 years), attempted murder (12 years) and traffick in a large commercial quantity of a drug of dependence (10 years)
- the federal offences with the longest charge-level median prison sentences were all serious drug offences: conspire to import a commercial quantity of a border controlled drug (10 years), importing a commercial quantity of a border controlled drug (9 years) and trafficking in a commercial quantity of a controlled drug (9 years).
SACStat includes all higher courts offences that had at least 10 sentenced charges over the five-year period. The new data accounts for successful appeals in the Court of Appeal to 30 June 2024.
You can access SACStat at www.sacstat.vic.gov.au.
