NCJ Number
101939
Date Published
1986
Length
421 pages
Annotation
This guide to the type of Australian criminal justice statistics available lists publications in circulation as of November 1985.
Abstract
The listed publications containing police statistics address reported offenses, staffing, and expenditures; those on courts encompass case outcomes, defendant characteristics, and other court-related variables (e.g., processing times, defendant's plea, and type of offense). Publications reporting prison statistics cover inmate population data, prison revenue and expenditures, staff, and other prison-related topics (e.g., leave programs, escapes, medical treatments, and criminal record), while those on community-based corrections address probation, parole, community service orders, and attendance centers. Juvenile-statistics publications contain data on correctional institutions, children's courts and panels, and services to juveniles; those on victim-statistics address incidents not reported to the police, reasons for nonreporting, and victim characteristics. Information for each listed publication in all categories encompasses frequency, reference period, data sources and collection, scope, coverage, tables/statistics, variable definitions, and comments.