The Sentencing Advisory Council has today published two new factsheets examining the number of people who commit serious violent or sexual offences while serving a community correction order (CCO). The factsheets separately cover serious offences sentenced in the 2021–22 and 2022–23 financial years.
The factsheets reveal that:
- 503 people in 2021-22 and 516 people in 2022-23 were sentenced for serious offences committed while serving a CCO
- in both years, approximately 1.7% of people serving a CCO were sentenced for committing a serious offence while on that CCO (the contravention rate has been 1.6% or 1.7% each year since 2016–17).
The three most common serious offences were:
- make threat to kill (263 charges in 2021–22 and 216 charges in 2022–23)
- aggravated burglary (96 charges in 2021–22 and 130 charges in 2022–23)
- make threat to inflict serious injury (131 charges in 2021–22 and 120 charges in 2022–23).
These were the same three most common serious offences committed by people on a CCO sentenced in previous years.
The Council is required to report each year on the number of people sentenced for committing a serious offence (as defined in section 104AA(3) of the Corrections Act 1986 (Vic)) while on a CCO, and previously published detailed reports covering each financial year since 1 July 2016. The new factsheets continue that series of reports and use the same counting rules.
Both factsheets, Serious Offending by People Serving a Community Correction Order: 2021-22 and Serious Offending by People Serving a Community Correction Order: 2022-23, are available for download from our website.