CAUSE NOT CONSEQUENCE: Smart action for community safety
About community legal centres Community legal centres are independent, community organisations that provide free legal services to the public. • Individual
legal information, advice and
casework; • Community • Law
legal education;
reform and policy
600
500
400
300 Prison spending ($m) 200
100
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
0
Victorian prison spending ($m) (not including community corrections) Source: Victorian Budget Papers
1.9 1.8 1.7 1.6 1.5 Policing services spending
1.4 1.3 1.2 1.1 1.0 2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
Victorian policing services spending ($b) Source: Victorian Budget Papers
500,000
400,000
300,000 Offences recorded
200,000
100,000
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
0
Overall crime in Victoria (offences recorded) Source: Victoria Police Crime Statistics 2009/10 (6 September 2010)
7000 6000 5000 4000 Prisoner numbers
3000
Vic Govt 2010 projection
2000 1000
2020
2015
2010
2005
2000
0
Victorian prisoner numbers Sources: Corrections Victoria Statistical Profile of Prisoners / Royce Millar “Super jails to cost billions� The Age 11 June 2011
1600 1400 1200 1000 800
Indigenous Non-indigenous
600 400 200
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
0
Indigenous imprisonment in Victoria (Prisoners per 100,000 population) Source: Corrections Victoria Statistical Profile of Victorian Prison System and ABS statistics