SA Indigenous imprisonment rate compared to Australian imprisonment rate

Crude adult imprisonment rates comparing SA Indigenous trends to SA total and Australian total, per 100,000, 1982-2008¹

 

Total

Indigenous

Non-Indigenous

 

SA

Aust.

SA

Aust.

SA

Aust.

1982

83.1

89.8

-

-

-

-

1983

77

91.6

-

-

-

-

1984

56

85.6

-

-

-

-

1985

76.7

94.1

-

-

-

-

1986

78.1

97.6

-

-

-

-

1987

83.4

100.8

-

-

-

-

1988

79.4

100.4

1249.5

1233.9

-

-

1989

80.9

103.5

1085.9

1204.7

-

-

1990

85.4

112.2

1287.2

1308.4

-

-

1991

94.4

116

1334.6

1122.1

-

-

1992

103.3

118.3

1618.9

1112.9

-

-

1993

103.7

119.2

1567.9

1183

-

-

1994

118.7

125.5

1916.1

1340.8

-

-

1995

123.1

127.3

2095.8

1399.2

-

-

1996

129.4

130.9

2072.5

1517.7

-

-

1997

130.1

134.9

2072.4

1572.2

-

-

1998

122.3

141.1

1,843.3

1,581.8

-

-

1999

122.4

150.7

1,902.1

1,778.3

-

-

2000

113.0

149.7

1,638.9

1,653.2

86.8

122.5

2001

120.0

152.5

1,632.9

1,753.5

89.8

122.8

2002

125.2

150.3

1,678.9

1,732.0

91.1

120.4

2003

123.5

154.9

1,638.4

1,818.0

90.2

122.8

2004

125.3

157.1

1,623.7

1,851.9

91.4

124.3

2005

123.2

162.5

1,680.6

2,021.2

89.4

125.3

2006

129.8

163.4

1,849.7

2,126.9

104.5

125.6

2007

143.9

169.4

2,334.7

2,255.5

113.6

129.2

2008

155.9

168.7

2,344.6

2,223.2

124.5

128.6

¹ Population of imprisonable age 18 years and over

Sources: SA. & Aust. 1982-1997, Carcach, C & Grant, A 1999, 'Imprisonment in Australia: Trends in Prison Populations & Imprisonment Rates 1982-1998,' Australian Institute of Criminology, Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice, No.130, p.3.
http://www.aic.gov.au/documents/C/C/1/%7BCC182C2A-81F8-4242-9A11-A9A0E97B919D%7Dti130.pdf

SA. Indigenous and Aust. Indigenous rates 1988-1997, Carcach, C, Grant, A, & Conroy, R 1999, ‘Australian Corrections: The imprisonment of Indigenous people’, Australian Institute of Criminology, Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice, No.137, p.2.
http://www.aic.gov.au/documents/5/1/4/%7B514A1BEC-D92E-4D66-B4BB-84D68BF4CF2E%7Dti137.pdf

SA., Aust., SA. Indigenous, Aust. Indigenous & SA. Non-Indigenous rates 1998-2008, Australian Bureau of Statistics 2008, Prisoners in Australia, Cat. no. 4517.0, DO016_2008, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Canberra.
http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Lookup/4517.0Main+Features12008?OpenDocument

*Age standardised rates take into account the differences in age distribution between Australia's Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations, which crude rates ignore. Because of this, crude rates are likely to overestimate rates of Indigenous incarceration, since Indigenous populations have significantly larger proportions of young people.  ABS age standardised rates begin from the year 2000, and it is believed that ABS will continue to employ this statistical method in the future.  The population standardised against is the Total Australian Estimated Resident Population at 30 June 2001.

Age standardised imprisonment rates by Indigenous status, per 100,000, SA and Australia, 2000-2008

 

SA

Aust.

 

Indigenous

Non-Indigenous

Indigenous

Non-Indigenous

2000

1,216.2

96.3

1264.5

128

2001

1,168.5

95.7

1287.8

123.4

2002

1,199.8

98.1

1283.1

121.8

2003

1,190.6

98.1

1368.4

124.8

2004

1,218.5

100.1

1413.9

126.7

2005

1,296.5

98.6

1560.9

128.8

2006

1,451.9

116.1

1668.2

129.8

2007

1,839.5

124.9

1786.7

133.5

2008

1,839.5

137.1

1769.4

133.3

Source:  Australian Bureau of Statistics 2008, Prisoners in Australia, Cat. no. 4517.0, DO017_2008, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Canberra, viewed September 2009, <http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Lookup/4517.0Main+Features12008?OpenDocument>.
(The National Prisoner Census data collected 30 June each year)