New Factsheets Identify How Many People Commit Serious Offences on a Community Correction Order

Date of Publication
12 December 2024

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.