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Australian crime : facts and figures 2003

Assault

Age and gender of assault victims, rate per 100,000 persons, 2002
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Source

  • Australian Bureau of Statistics 2003, Recorded crime : victims, Australia 2002, cat. no. 4510.0, ABS, Canberra.
  • Australian Bureau of Statistics 2003, Population by age and sex : Australian states and territories 1997 to 2002, cat. no. 3201.0, ABS, Canberra.

What this chart shows

  • Fifty-seven per cent of assault victims were male.
  • Consistent with patterns in previous years, males had higher victimisation rates than females for all age categories.
  • Both males and females were most at risk of being a victim of assault aged between 15 and 24 years.
  • The number of male and female victims of assault increased by 6% each between 2001 and 2002.

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