the higher courts between January 2012 and June 2013 was 24 months. The median in the subsequent 18 months was unchanged at 24 months. Figure 6 the duration, by quarter, of CCOs where a CCO was the principal sentence measured by the median and the 95th percentile. The 95th percentile is the point that 95% of observations in a set of data fall below and 5% of observations fall above. Thus the 95th percentile is a good indicator of the upper extreme of values. While the median remained constant over much of the three-year period (at 24.0 months), the 95th percentile declined in the September quarter (41.3 months) and the December quarter (36.0 months) of 2014. This suggests that fewer CCOs of above three years’ duration were imposed in the second half of 2014 than from the June quarter of 2013 to the June quarter of 2014. Figure 6: Median and 95th percentile duration, by quarter, of CCOs where a CCO was the principal sentence, higher courts, January 2012 to December 2014 Quarter Median 95th percentile 2012 18 36.0 June 2012 24 36.0 September 2012 24 48.0 December 2012 18 36.0 March 2013 24 36.0 June 2013 24 48.0 September 2013 24 48.0 December 2013 24 48.0 March 2014 24 48.0 June 2014 24 48.0 September 2014 24 41.3 December 2014 24 36.0 Changes in the use of the combined CCO–imprisonment sentence Legislation that came into operation in September 2014 enhanced the courts’ ability to combine a CCO with an imprisonment by increasing the maximum length of imprisonment with which a CCO could be combined. Figure 7 shows quarterly data for the number of combined CCO–imprisonment sentences imposed between January 2012 and December 2014. There was a marked increase in the use of the combined sentence in the December quarter of 2014 when 61 combined CCO–imprisonment sentences were imposed compared with just 18 in the
the higher courts between January 2012 and June 2013 was 24 months. The median in the subsequent 18 months was unchanged at 24 months. Figure 6 the duration, by quarter, of CCOs where a CCO was the principal sentence measured by the median and the 95th percentile. The 95th percentile is the point that 95% of observations in a set of data fall below and 5% of observations fall above. Thus the 95th percentile is a good indicator of the upper extreme of values. While the median remained constant over much of the three-year period (at 24.0 months), the 95th percentile declined in the September quarter (41.3 months) and the December quarter (36.0 months) of 2014. This suggests that fewer CCOs of above three years’ duration were imposed in the second half of 2014 than from the June quarter of 2013 to the June quarter of 2014. Figure 6: Median and 95th percentile duration, by quarter, of CCOs where a CCO was the principal sentence, higher courts, January 2012 to December 2014 Quarter Median 95th percentile 2012 18 36.0 June 2012 24 36.0 September 2012 24 48.0 December 2012 18 36.0 March 2013 24 36.0 June 2013 24 48.0 September 2013 24 48.0 December 2013 24 48.0 March 2014 24 48.0 June 2014 24 48.0 September 2014 24 41.3 December 2014 24 36.0 Changes in the use of the combined CCO–imprisonment sentence Legislation that came into operation in September 2014 enhanced the courts’ ability to combine a CCO with an imprisonment by increasing the maximum length of imprisonment with which a CCO could be combined. Figure 7 shows quarterly data for the number of combined CCO–imprisonment sentences imposed between January 2012 and December 2014. There was a marked increase in the use of the combined sentence in the December quarter of 2014 when 61 combined CCO–imprisonment sentences were imposed compared with just 18 in the
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