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Indigenous people turn up in the South Australian justice system 11 times more than non-indigenous people.
The South Australian figure is only the tip of data, Australian Bureau of Statistics data shows.
"The next highest ratio of indigenous to non-indigenous offender rates was in the Northern Territory at eight times higher," and 75 per cent of all offenders are indigenous a report released today says.
"In New South Wales it was slightly less than eight times higher, and in Queensland it was less than seven times the rate of non-indigenous offenders."
The bureau said offender rates varied wildly across different crimes.
"For offenders with a principal offence related to fraud and deception, indigenous offender rates for all four states and territory are two to five times higher than those of the non-indigenous population.
"For the principal offence of acts intended to cause injury, there is a marked difference between the indigenous and non-indigenous populations, with the indigenous offender rate being 10 to 16 times higher than the rates of the non-indigenous population."
The look at recorded crime during 2008-09 reveals the overall prevalence of crime across the nation is rising.
Police acted against 344,300 alleged offenders aged 10 or over.
This is a six per cent increase on the previous year.
The rise was equally shared by women and men with female offenders rising by eight per cent and the number of male offenders rising six per cent.
Women were most commonly accused of theft while men faced charges relating to causing injury.
The confirmation of a rise in crime came as a small business lobby group talked of taking up arms because of it.
The Retailers Association chief Scott Driscoll said the "small business retail sector had a crime problem that was "out of control".
"The last thing we'd be advocating is rampant vigilantism but you have to feel for the small business owner who believes that they have no other option than to take things into their own hands, when penalties being handed out are acting as no deterrent," Mr Driscoll said in a statement.
http://www.independentweekly.com.au/news/national/national/general/crime-rises-six-per-cent/1780320.aspx?src=rss
Indigenous people turn up in the South Australian justice system 11 times more than non-indigenous people.
The South Australian figure is only the tip of data, Australian Bureau of Statistics data shows.
"The next highest ratio of indigenous to non-indigenous offender rates was in the Northern Territory at eight times higher," and 75 per cent of all offenders are indigenous a report released today says.
"In New South Wales it was slightly less than eight times higher, and in Queensland it was less than seven times the rate of non-indigenous offenders."
The bureau said offender rates varied wildly across different crimes.
"For offenders with a principal offence related to fraud and deception, indigenous offender rates for all four states and territory are two to five times higher than those of the non-indigenous population.
"For the principal offence of acts intended to cause injury, there is a marked difference between the indigenous and non-indigenous populations, with the indigenous offender rate being 10 to 16 times higher than the rates of the non-indigenous population."
The look at recorded crime during 2008-09 reveals the overall prevalence of crime across the nation is rising.
Police acted against 344,300 alleged offenders aged 10 or over.
This is a six per cent increase on the previous year.
The rise was equally shared by women and men with female offenders rising by eight per cent and the number of male offenders rising six per cent.
Women were most commonly accused of theft while men faced charges relating to causing injury.
The confirmation of a rise in crime came as a small business lobby group talked of taking up arms because of it.
The Retailers Association chief Scott Driscoll said the "small business retail sector had a crime problem that was "out of control".
"The last thing we'd be advocating is rampant vigilantism but you have to feel for the small business owner who believes that they have no other option than to take things into their own hands, when penalties being handed out are acting as no deterrent," Mr Driscoll said in a statement.
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