Jurisdictions vary in the time over which home detention options have been operating and in the size of the detainee populations, both of which have implications for identifying and assessing the contribution of factors that may underlie performance variation across jurisdictions presented in the following section as well as affecting program features such as caseload below.
Daily average number of total detainees (including unsentenced offenders) is presented in the first graph and data table on the following page. Caseload and unit cost data was not able to be disaggregated by type of detainee, so that the staff to offender ratio and unit cost analyses below for those jurisdictions reporting on this data are of necessity based on these total detainee numbers. Gender and Indigenous detainee breakdowns (where available for the five-year period below) are also based on this total detainee population.
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% Indigenous |
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% women |
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00-01 |
01-02 |
02-03 |
03-04 |
04-05 |
00-01 |
01-02 |
02-03 |
03-04 |
04-05 |
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NSW |
3.4 |
2.8 |
4.8 |
6.0 |
4.7 |
14.0 |
14.2 |
14.8 |
17.0 |
17.7 |
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Vic |
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0.0 |
0.0 |
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0.0 |
25.0 |
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Qld |
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12.7 |
13.0 |
10.7 |
11.5 |
10.7 |
7.9 |
8.7 |
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SA |
4.7 |
7.0 |
5.0 |
7.2 |
7.8 |
8.2 |
7.0 |
8.7 |
9.7 |
9.4 |
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ACT |
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50.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
25.4 |
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0.0 |
50.0 |
0.0 |
8.4 |
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NT |
53.6 |
47.1 |
49.0 |
51.7 |
46.4 |
7.1 |
8.8 |
9.8 |
8.6 |
10.7 |
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NZ |
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39.4 |
38.7 |
39.0 |
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20.6 |
19.0 |
22.1 |
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The second figure and data table on the following page present daily average figures for front-end and back-end detainees separately for those jurisdictions operating both types of formal program, but excludes detainees on bail supervision in SA, as well as ACT and Victorian figures and SA front-end detainees given the relatively small size of these three populations. The program outcome analyses in the following section are based on only this restricted set of detainee numbers.
* daily average numbers are not available for NSW in 1996/97 (program commenced in Feb 1997); NT: years prior to 1998-99 are based on number of detainees at 30 June only
* excludes SA bail supervision, Victorian, ACT and SA front-end HD figures.
As well as variation in absolute numbers of detainees, jurisdictions also differ in the proportion of detainees to total community correction offender population and to total corrective service population. In 2004-05, the daily average number of detainees (excluding bail supervision in SA) ranged between 0.2% and 5.2% of community corrections offenders, with NT showing a much larger proportion than all other jurisdictions.
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daily average detainees 2004-05 |
NSW |
Vic |
Qld |
SA |
ACT |
NT |
NZ |
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as % of total community corrections population |
1.1 |
0.2 |
0.6 |
1.1 |
0.5 |
5.2 |
1.9 |
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as % of total corrective services population |
0.7 |
0.2 |
0.4 |
0.9 |
0.4 |
3.0 |
1.5 |