SACStat Magistrates' Court

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Crimes Act 1958 (Vic) s 74, Data for Magistrates' Court, 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2021

Note that a charge is a single proven count of an offence. A case is a collection of one or more charges (of any offence) against a person sentenced at the one hearing.

All Cases % Sentence Type

Sentence Type	Percentage
Sentence Type	All (n=1,398)	Males Only (n=1,225)	Females Only (n=173)	Ages 18-19 (n=63)	Ages 20-24 (n=249)	Ages 25-34 (n=567)	Ages 35-44 (n=351)	Ages 45-56 (n=146)	Ages 55+ (n=18)
Imprisonment	58.7%	62.1%	34.1%	36.5%	50.6%	66.7%	59.0%	52.1%	44.4%
Partially Suspended Sentence	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Wholly Suspended Sentence	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Youth Justice Centre Order	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%	7.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Community Correction Order	18.7%	16.7%	32.9%	28.6%	21.3%	16.6%	16.8%	23.3%	16.7%
Intensive Correction Order	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Community-based Order	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Fine	11.2%	11.3%	10.4%	7.9%	14.9%	8.5%	12.0%	13.0%	27.8%
Other	3.3%	3.6%	1.2%	0.0%	1.6%	3.2%	5.1%	2.7%	5.6%
ADU/Discharge/Dismissal	7.7%	5.8%	21.4%	19.0%	11.2%	4.9%	7.1%	8.9%	5.6%

All Charges % Sentence Type

Charges – Sentence Type	Percentage
Charges – Sentence Type	All (n=2,073)
Imprisonment	55.1%
Partially Suspended Sentence	0.0%
Wholly Suspended Sentence	0.0%
Youth Justice Centre Order	0.3%
Community Correction Order	24.4%
Intensive Correction Order	0.0%
Community-based Order	0.0%
Fine	9.2%
Other	3.8%
ADU/Discharge/Dismissal	7.1%

Imprisonment Length

CASES, Imprisonment – Total Effective Sentence

Duration (months)	Percentage n = 820
< 3	30.4%
3 < 6	25.7%
6 < 12	24.3%
12 < 18	10.5%
18 < 24	4.5%
24 < 36	4.1%
36 +	0.5%

CASES, Imprisonment – Non-Parole Period

Duration (months)	Percentage n = 820
No NPP	86.5%
< 3	0.0%
3 < 6	0.7%
6 < 12	6.1%
12 < 18	4.6%
18 < 24	1.7%
24 < 36	0.4%
36 +	0.0%

CHARGES, Imprisonment – by Aggregation

Duration (months)	Percentage n = 1,143
Duration (months)	Aggregate	Non-Aggregate
< 3	32.7%	5.2%
3 < 6	24.0%	1.6%
6 < 12	21.6%	0.3%
12 < 18	9.0%	0.2%
18 < 24	2.4%	0.0%
24 +	2.2%	0.9%

Partially Suspended Sentence Length

CASES, Partially Suspended Sentence – Total Effective Sentence

Duration (months)	Percentage n = 0
< 3	0.0%
3 < 6	0.0%
6 < 12	0.0%
12 < 18	0.0%
18 < 24	0.0%
24 < 36	0.0%
36 +	0.0%

CHARGES, Partially Suspended Sentence – by Aggregation

Duration (months)	Percentage n = 0
Duration (months)	Aggregate	Non-Aggregate
< 3	0.0%	0.0%
3 < 6	0.0%	0.0%
6 < 12	0.0%	0.0%
12 < 18	0.0%	0.0%
18 < 24	0.0%	0.0%
24 +	0.0%	0.0%

CHARGES, Partially Suspended Sentence – Part to Serve

Duration (months)	Percentage n = 0
Duration (months)	Aggregate	Non-Aggregate
0	0.0%	0.0%
< 1	0.0%	0.0%
1 < 3	0.0%	0.0%
3 < 6	0.0%	0.0%
6 +	0.0%	0.0%

CHARGES, Wholly Suspended Sentence – by Aggregation

Duration (months)	Percentage n = 1
Duration (months)	Aggregate	Non-Aggregate
< 3	0.0%	0.0%
3 < 6	100.0%	0.0%
6 < 12	0.0%	0.0%
12 < 18	0.0%	0.0%
18 < 24	0.0%	0.0%
24 +	0.0%	0.0%

CHARGES, Community Correction Order Length – by Aggregation

Duration (months)	Percentage n = 505
Duration (months)	Aggregate	Non-Aggregate
< 3	0.0%	0.0%
3 < 6	0.0%	0.2%
6 < 12	0.0%	5.9%
12 < 18	0.0%	71.9%
18 < 24	0.0%	16.6%
24 +	0.0%	5.3%

CHARGES, Intensive Correction Order Length – by Aggregation

Duration (months)	Percentage n = 0
Duration (months)	Aggregate	Non-Aggregate
< 3	0.0%	0.0%
3 < 6	0.0%	0.0%
6 < 12	0.0%	0.0%
12 < 18	0.0%	0.0%
18 < 24	0.0%	0.0%
24 +	0.0%	0.0%

CHARGES, Community-Based Order

Duration (months)	Percentage n = 0
< 3	0.0%
3 < 6	0.0%
6 < 12	0.0%
12 < 24	0.0%
24 +	0.0%

CHARGES, Fine Amount – by Aggregation

Fine Amount	Percentage n = 191
Fine Amount	Aggregate	Non-Aggregate
Less than $500	7.9%	5.8%
$500 < $1,000	27.2%	4.7%
$1,000 < $2,000	34.6%	2.1%
$2,000 < $3,000	14.1%	0.5%
$3,000 < $4,000	1.6%	0.5%
$4,000 < $5,000	1.0%	0.0%
$5,000 < $10,000	0.0%	0.0%
$10,000 < $20,000	0.0%	0.0%
$20,000 or more	0.0%	0.0%

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