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2 results foundAuthor: Williams, Mary Spiers Title: Reducing the Unintended Impacts of Fines Summary: The fines enforcement system, on its surface, treats Indigenous and non-Indigenous people equally. However the disadvantage experienced by many Indigenous people results in the fines enforcement system having disproportionate impacts upon them, including financial stress, social exclusion, driver's licence suspension, car registration cancellation, and imprisonment. This paper reports on these impacts and the efforts of justice agencies to avoid these excessive impacts. Innovations include outreach and education activities by conducted Aboriginal liaison officers, specialist courts and treatment orders. Details: Canberra: Indigenous Justice Clearinghouse, 2011. 8p. Source: Internet Resource: Current Initiatives Paper 2: Accessed February 16, 2011 at: http://www.indigenousjustice.gov.au/initiatives/initiative002.pdf Year: 2011 Country: Australia URL: http://www.indigenousjustice.gov.au/initiatives/initiative002.pdf Shelf Number: 120777 Keywords: Fines (Australia)Indigenous Peoples |
Author: Victoria (Australia). Sentencing Advisory Council Title: The Imposition and Enforcement of Court Fines and Infringement Penalties in Victoria: Report Summary: Court fines and infringement penalties are the most common sanctions for criminal behavior imposed in Victoria. For most members of the community, the only interaction they will experience with the criminal justice system as offenders is as the recipient of an infringement notice, most likely for a driving- or parking-related offence. While infringement offending is of a relatively low level of seriousness when compared with offending sentenced in the courts, the sheer volume of infringement notices issued each year (some 6 million in 2012-13) means that their enforcement has far reaching consequences for the credibility of the criminal justice system. Similarly, given the large number of sentences handed down in Victorian courts that are fines, the enforcement of court fines affects both the credibility of, and judicial confidence in, the imposition of fines as a sentence. Currently, a substantial number of people do not pay their court fines and infringement penalties. Around a third of all infringement penalties are not paid prior to enforcement action, and around two-fifths of Magistrates' Court fines are neither paid nor discharged. Until a fine or penalty is paid or discharged, the recipient has effectively avoided the penal consequence of their offending behaviour. Enforcement - through payment, or through discharge by non-monetary means - is therefore crucial to achieving the purposes of an infringement penalty or the purposes of sentencing for which a fine was imposed. This report represents the Sentencing Advisory Council's response to the Attorney-General's request for advice on the imposition and enforcement of fines as a sentence by Victorian courts. This report also presents recommendations in relation to the Attorney's request for advice on particular matters, such as the number of infringement matters heard in open court, the conversion of fines to an order for community work or an order for imprisonment, and harmonising the enforcement procedures for court fines with those for infringement penalties. Details: Melbourne: Sentencing Advisory Council, 2014. 435p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed July 28, 2014 at: http://www.sentencingcouncil.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/publication-documents/Imposition%20and%20Enforcement%20of%20Court%20Fines%20and%20Infringement%20Penalties%20in%20Victoria.pdf Year: 2014 Country: Australia URL: http://www.sentencingcouncil.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/publication-documents/Imposition%20and%20Enforcement%20of%20Court%20Fines%20and%20Infringement%20Penalties%20in%20Victoria.pdf Shelf Number: 132785 Keywords: Fines (Australia)PunishmentSentencing |