SACStat Magistrates' Court

deposit litter (repealed)

Environment Protection Act 1970 (Vic) s 45E(1), 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=331)	Males Only (n=246)	Females Only (n=69)	Ages 18-19 (n=3)	Ages 20-24 (n=26)	Ages 25-34 (n=47)	Ages 35-44 (n=37)	Ages 45-56 (n=27)	Ages 55+ (n=21)
Imprisonment	5.1%	6.5%	1.4%	0.0%	19.2%	12.8%	10.8%	7.4%	0.0%
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	7.3%	6.9%	10.1%	66.7%	30.8%	12.8%	8.1%	18.5%	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	71.0%	68.7%	73.9%	33.3%	34.6%	57.4%	70.3%	51.9%	38.1%
Other	0.6%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	2.7%	0.0%	4.8%
ADU/Discharge/Dismissal	16.0%	17.1%	14.5%	0.0%	15.4%	17.0%	8.1%	22.2%	57.1%

All Charges % Sentence Type

Charges – Sentence Type	Percentage
Charges – Sentence Type	All (n=348)
Imprisonment	0.3%
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	74.1%
Other	0.0%
ADU/Discharge/Dismissal	20.4%

Imprisonment Length

CASES, Imprisonment – Total Effective Sentence

Duration (months)	Percentage n = 17
< 3	35.3%
3 < 6	35.3%
6 < 12	17.6%
12 < 18	5.9%
18 < 24	5.9%
24 < 36	0.0%
36 +	0.0%

CASES, Imprisonment – Non-Parole Period

Duration (months)	Percentage n = 17
No NPP	88.2%
< 3	0.0%
3 < 6	0.0%
6 < 12	5.9%
12 < 18	5.9%
18 < 24	0.0%
24 < 36	0.0%
36 +	0.0%

CHARGES, Imprisonment – by Aggregation

Duration (months)	Percentage n = 1
Duration (months)	Aggregate	Non-Aggregate
< 3	100.0%	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%

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 = 18
Duration (months)	Aggregate	Non-Aggregate
< 3	0.0%	0.0%
3 < 6	0.0%	0.0%
6 < 12	0.0%	5.6%
12 < 18	0.0%	72.2%
18 < 24	0.0%	16.7%
24 +	0.0%	5.6%

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 = 258
Fine Amount	Aggregate	Non-Aggregate
Less than $500	6.6%	32.6%
$500 < $1,000	23.3%	12.0%
$1,000 < $2,000	8.1%	5.4%
$2,000 < $3,000	5.4%	0.4%
$3,000 < $4,000	1.6%	1.2%
$4,000 < $5,000	1.2%	0.0%
$5,000 < $10,000	0.8%	0.4%
$10,000 < $20,000	0.4%	0.4%
$20,000 or more	0.4%	0.0%

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