SACStat Magistrates' Court

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Environment Protection Act 1970 (Vic) s 45E(1), Data for Magistrates' Court, 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2019

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=476)	Males Only (n=353)	Females Only (n=102)	Ages 18-19 (n=7)	Ages 20-24 (n=36)	Ages 25-34 (n=70)	Ages 35-44 (n=51)	Ages 45-56 (n=35)	Ages 55+ (n=25)
Imprisonment	6.1%	6.8%	4.9%	0.0%	8.3%	15.7%	23.5%	5.7%	4.0%
Partially Suspended Sentence	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Wholly Suspended Sentence	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Youth Justice Centre Order	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Community Correction Order	6.3%	6.8%	5.9%	14.3%	25.0%	18.6%	5.9%	11.4%	0.0%
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	71.2%	71.1%	68.6%	71.4%	50.0%	55.7%	52.9%	62.9%	60.0%
Other	0.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.4%	2.0%	0.0%	0.0%
ADU/Discharge/Dismissal	16.0%	14.7%	20.6%	14.3%	16.7%	8.6%	15.7%	20.0%	36.0%

All Charges % Sentence Type

Charges – Sentence Type	Percentage
Charges – Sentence Type	All (n=503)
Imprisonment	0.4%
Partially Suspended Sentence	0.0%
Wholly Suspended Sentence	0.0%
Youth Justice Centre Order	0.0%
Community Correction Order	5.2%
Intensive Correction Order	0.0%
Community-based Order	0.0%
Fine	74.0%
Other	0.0%
ADU/Discharge/Dismissal	20.5%

Imprisonment Length

CASES, Imprisonment – Total Effective Sentence

Duration (months)	Percentage n = 29
< 3	44.8%
3 < 6	27.6%
6 < 12	20.7%
12 < 18	3.4%
18 < 24	3.4%
24 < 36	0.0%
36 +	0.0%

CASES, Imprisonment – Non-Parole Period

Duration (months)	Percentage n = 29
No NPP	96.6%
< 3	0.0%
3 < 6	0.0%
6 < 12	0.0%
12 < 18	3.4%
18 < 24	0.0%
24 < 36	0.0%
36 +	0.0%

CHARGES, Imprisonment – by Aggregation

Duration (months)	Percentage n = 2
Duration (months)	Aggregate	Non-Aggregate
< 3	50.0%	0.0%
3 < 6	0.0%	0.0%
6 < 12	50.0%	0.0%
12 < 18	0.0%	0.0%
18 < 24	0.0%	0.0%
24 +	0.0%	0.0%

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 = 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 Correction Order Length – by Aggregation

Duration (months)	Percentage n = 26
Duration (months)	Aggregate	Non-Aggregate
< 3	0.0%	0.0%
3 < 6	0.0%	0.0%
6 < 12	0.0%	7.7%
12 < 18	0.0%	61.5%
18 < 24	0.0%	19.2%
24 +	0.0%	11.5%

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 = 372
Fine Amount	Aggregate	Non-Aggregate
Less than $500	4.6%	31.7%
$500 < $1,000	23.1%	12.9%
$1,000 < $2,000	11.8%	3.2%
$2,000 < $3,000	6.5%	0.8%
$3,000 < $4,000	1.1%	0.5%
$4,000 < $5,000	0.5%	0.0%
$5,000 < $10,000	0.8%	0.5%
$10,000 < $20,000	1.3%	0.3%
$20,000 or more	0.3%	0.0%

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