New data from the Australian Sexual Offence Statistical (ASOS) collection shows:
- There were 9,101 unique alleged sexual offenders proceeded against by police in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory in 2022-23.
- The sexual offender rate was 42.61 per 100,000 relevant population, compared with 40.11 in 2021-22. The male sexual offender rate was 80.04 and the female sexual offender rate was 5.89.
- Almost half of the offenders (excluding the Australian Capital Territory) were proceeded against for one or more child sexual offences on their first or only police proceeding for a sexual offence (49%, n=4,378).
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