NEW SOUTH WALES CRIMINAL COURTS STATISTICS 1992

• NCJ Number: 144332
• Date Published: 1993
• Length: 121 pages
• Corporate Author: New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/; NCJRS Photocopy Services
• Publication Format: Document
• Publication Type: Statistics
• Language: English
• Country: Australia
• Note: US Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, International Crime Statistics Program

Annotation

This report presents statistics on the criminal cases disposed by the local, district, and supreme courts of New South Wales, Australia in 1992 and in juvenile courts in 1990-91 and 1991-92.

Abstract

The number of criminal cases disposed by local courts declined 4.3 percent, from 109,807 cases in 1991 to 105,118 in 1992. Convictions occurred in 87.7 percent of the cases in which person was charged, and 5.8 percent of these cases resulted in imprisonment. The proportion of relatively short prison sentences increased in 1992. The number of criminal matters disposed in New South Wales Children's Courts declined 13 percent from 15,802 cases in 1990-91 to 13,753 in 1991-92. The most common charge was breaking, entering, and stealing. Tables