Recidivism in Australia : findings and future research - Australian ...

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Selected recidivism research 1995–2006
Publication
year Title Key recidivism findings Comments
Author
In an examination of arrests recorded in Western
Australian between 1990 and 1993 the
researcher found that:
• in 1990, 86,079 charges were attributable
to 39,097 individual offenders – an average
yearly charge rate per offender of 2.2
Harding R 1995 Aboriginal contact
with the criminal
justice system and
the impact of the
Royal Commission
into Aboriginal
Deaths in Custody
• in 1993, 78,859 charges were attributable
to 34,602 individual offenders – an average
yearly charge rate per offender of 2.3.
Using analysis by Broadhurst (1993) the report
showed the probability of reimprisonment in
the first instance as:
• 0.43 for male non-Indigenous offenders
• 0.36 for female non-Indigenous offenders
• 0.76 for male Indigenous offenders
• 0.66 for female Indigenous offenders.
It was identified that Indigenous juveniles had
higher rates of contact and recontact with the
juvenile justice system.
Using data from a Morgan and Gardner (1992)
study, this report highlighted that:
• 21% of a South Australian 1972 birth cohort
had some contact with the juvenile justice
system within the juvenile years
Wundersitz J 1996 Juvenile justice,
in Crime and
justice: an
Australian
textbook in
criminology
• of those who had contact, 35% had multiple
episodes of contact
Appendix A
• a small proportion (5%) recorded more than
five episodes of contact.
Similar results were found in another South
Australian study (Department of Family and
Community Services 1991).
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