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ARTICLE · 01 JANUARY 2024

Sexual assault statistics in NSW 2023

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The latest sexual assault sentencing statistics have revealed that three out of four offenders received a jail term.

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Avinash Singh
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The release of the latest sexual assault sentencing statistics have revealed that three out of four offenders received a jail term.

The analysis from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) assessed cases throughout Australia between 2010-11 and 2019-20.

There was a total of 53,570 sexual assault offenders in that period.

The average term of imprisonment was four and a half years. This was an increase over the previous decade.

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Will Milne, ABS Director of the National Centre for Crime and Justice Statistics explained that after accounting for population growth, the male sexual assault offender rate saw a small increase from 46 offenders per 100,000 males in 2010-11, to 52 offenders per 100,000 in 2019-20.

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