Wilfully injure or damage property (where cost of damage is less than $5,000)

Legislation: Summary Offences Act 1966 (Vic) s 9(1)(c)

Maximum penalty: 6 months imprisonment or 25 penalty units

Period: 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2024

Jurisdiction: higher courts

Charges

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Cases

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All outcomes

Males

Females

Aged under 25

Aged 25 to 54

Aged 55 and over

*Note: unavailable options have under 10 cases

Charge data

In the higher courts, 18 charges of wilfully injure or damage property (where cost of damage is less than $5,000) were sentenced in the five years to 30 June 2024. The most common sentence for a charge of this offence was imprisonment (83.3% or 15 charges).

On SACStat, a charge is a single count of a sentenced offence. Charge data is most useful in understanding how a specific crime is usually sentenced.

Case data

In the higher courts, wilfully injure or damage property (where cost of damage is less than $5,000) was the principal proven offence (the most serious crime in the case) in fewer than 10 cases in the five years to 30 June 2024. Therefore, outcomes for cases are not given for this offence.

Bar graph showing sentence types imposed for charges of wilfully injure or damage property (where cost of damage is less than $5,000) — **Figure 1**: Sentencing outcomes for all charges of wilfully injure or damage property (where cost of damage is less than $5,000)
**Number: 18 charges**

Bar graph showing imprisonment lengths for charges of wilfully injure or damage property (where cost of damage is less than $5,000) — **Figure 2**: Imprisonment lengths for charges of wilfully injure or damage property (where cost of damage is less than $5,000)
**Number: 10 charges**
**Range and median**: The shortest imprisonment length is 0.02 years, the longest is 0.25 years, and the median is 0.08 years, meaning that half of the imprisonment lengths are below 0.08 years and half are above.
**Note**: The graph only includes imprisonment that was not part of an aggregate sentence (non-aggregate imprisonment).

Stacked bar graph showing sentences imposed each year for charges of wilfully injure or damage property (where cost of damage is less than $5,000) — **Figure 6**: Sentencing outcomes for all charges of wilfully injure or damage property (where cost of damage is less than $5,000) by financial year
**Number: 18 charges**

Bar graph showing the number of charges each year for the offence of wilfully injure or damage property (where cost of damage is less than $5,000) — **Figure 7**: Number of charges of wilfully injure or damage property (where cost of damage is less than $5,000) by financial year
**Number: 18 charges**

Bar graph showing imprisonment lengths each year for charges of wilfully injure or damage property (where cost of damage is less than $5,000) — **Figure 8**: Average imprisonment lengths for charges of wilfully injure or damage property (where cost of damage is less than $5,000) by financial year
**Number: 10 charges**
**Note**: The graph only includes imprisonment that was not part of an aggregate sentence (non-aggregate imprisonment).