SACStat Magistrates' Court

fail to apply to register a dog or cat

Domestic Animals Act 1994 (Vic) s 10(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=3,044)	Males Only (n=1,388)	Females Only (n=1,656)	Ages 18-19 (n=10)	Ages 20-24 (n=94)	Ages 25-34 (n=290)	Ages 35-44 (n=233)	Ages 45-56 (n=212)	Ages 55+ (n=96)
Imprisonment	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	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	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	10.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.0%
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	88.0%	88.8%	87.3%	80.0%	80.9%	78.3%	84.5%	80.2%	68.8%
Other	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
ADU/Discharge/Dismissal	11.9%	10.9%	12.7%	10.0%	19.1%	21.7%	15.5%	19.8%	30.2%

All Charges % Sentence Type

Charges – Sentence Type	Percentage
Charges – Sentence Type	All (n=4,206)
Imprisonment	0.0%
Partially Suspended Sentence	0.0%
Wholly Suspended Sentence	0.0%
Youth Justice Centre Order	0.0%
Community Correction Order	0.4%
Intensive Correction Order	0.0%
Community-based Order	0.0%
Fine	87.4%
Other	0.0%
ADU/Discharge/Dismissal	12.2%

Imprisonment Length

CASES, Imprisonment – Total Effective Sentence

Duration (months)	Percentage n = 2
< 3	0.0%
3 < 6	100.0%
6 < 12	0.0%
12 < 18	0.0%
18 < 24	0.0%
24 < 36	0.0%
36 +	0.0%

CASES, Imprisonment – Non-Parole Period

Duration (months)	Percentage n = 2
No NPP	100.0%
< 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, Imprisonment – 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%

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%	11.1%
12 < 18	0.0%	88.9%
18 < 24	0.0%	0.0%
24 +	0.0%	0.0%

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 = 3,676
Fine Amount	Aggregate	Non-Aggregate
Less than $500	4.4%	31.3%
$500 < $1,000	37.4%	0.5%
$1,000 < $2,000	15.9%	0.1%
$2,000 < $3,000	4.9%	0.0%
$3,000 < $4,000	1.3%	0.0%
$4,000 < $5,000	1.5%	0.0%
$5,000 < $10,000	2.7%	0.0%
$10,000 < $20,000	0.0%	0.0%
$20,000 or more	0.0%	0.0%

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