Australian crime: facts and figures 2002

Abstract

The most up to date information available on crime throughout Australia is presented in this booklet. It presents statistics on recorded crimes, 1995 to 2001; their place of occurrence; selected crime profiles for 2001, including victim details; age and gender data for alleged offenders and specific offences; criminal court statistics; corrections statistics, including statistics for prisons, community corrections and juvenile corrective institutions; statistics on criminal justice resources, including justice expenditure, police, court administration and adult corrective services; and drug related statistics.

Acknowledgements
Extraction of data and preparation of text: Vanessa Brewster and Alexander Cook.

Note
Because of rounding, some percentages may not sum to 100.