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Australian Crime: Facts and Figures 2002
Sexual assault: Victim-offender relationship
Gender of sexual assault victims and relationship to offender, percentages, 2001
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics 2002, Recorded crime Australia 2001, cat. no. 4510.0
What this chart shows
- Most sexual assaults (63%) were committed by a person known to the victim.
- One in four sexual assaults was perpetrated by a family member.
- In about 38% of sexual assaults the offender was a non-family member known to the victim.
- Almost 16% of sexual assaults were committed by strangers. Females were more likely to be assaulted by a stranger, compared to males.