Victorian Numbered Acts

SERIOUS OFFENDERS ACT 2018 (NO. 27 OF 2018) - SECT 196

The purpose of a residential treatment facility is to provide for one or more of the following—

        (a)     the protection of the community from offenders on supervision orders or interim supervision orders;

        (b)     the intensive treatment and supervision of offenders on supervision orders or interim supervision orders to reduce the risk of those offenders committing a serious sex offence or a serious violence offence;

        (c)     the transition of offenders on supervision orders or interim supervision orders from the facility to the community;

        (d)     the provision of intensive support and case management to offenders (in a therapeutic environment) to assist them in complying with the conditions of supervision orders or interim supervision orders;

        (e)     the short-term and safe accommodation of offenders on supervision orders or interim supervision orders.