Australian Institute of Criminology, Criminal Justice System - information and resources relating to corrections, courts, justice and policing.
Magistrates' Court of Victoria, Criminal and Traffic homepage - information on proceedings, fines and penalties.
Community Correction Order - information from the Sentencing Advisory Council.
Victoria Legal Aid, possible outcomes and sanctions for criminal offences.
Law Institute Victoria, submission to the attorney general - Review of sentencing options for drug related offending.
Magistrates' Court of Victoria, Criminal Justice Diversion Program - benefits, eligibility.
Sentencing Advisory Council - How does imprisonment combined with a community correction order compare with imprisonment only?
SACStat - Sentencing Advisory Council Statistics Online - databse for statistics imposed in Victorian criminal courts.
Magistrates' Court of Victoria - Sentencing, changes and convictions.
Victorian Sentencing Manual - online guide for practice and policy for sentencing in Victorian courts.
Legal Services Commission of SA, Sentencing - principles, information, options, deterrance and other considerations.
ABC - Prison study shows jail not an effective deterrent.
The conversation - Prison policy is turning Australia into the second nation of captives.
Australian Institute of Criminology - reports, papers and studies on rates of recidivism.
The Sydney Morning Herald - Call for complete rethink as prison population, recidivism, explodes.
Victorian Ombudsman - Investigation into the rehabilitation and reintroduction of prisoners in Victoria.
Queensland Parliamentary Library - Limiting prisoner disenfranchisement: the High Court Decision in Roach v Electoral Commissioner.
Lawgovpol - Case study: Vickie Lee Roach
Victorian Sentencing Manual, Legislative amendments summaries - overview of recent legislative changes that impact sentencing law.
Victorian Sentencing Manual, 2017 - Updates, revisions and revisions.
Sentencing Advisory Council, Key events timeline - reforms and changes to sentencing in Victoria.
UWSLR - A progressive court and a balancing test: Rowe v Electoral Commissioner [2010]
UWA Law School - Roach v Electorial Commissioner [2007]
Government of the Netherlands, sentences and other non-punitive orders - alternative sanctions, fines and other sentences.
Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, UK - alternatives to imprisonment in Europe.