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Australian crime : facts and figures 2003

Assault

Assault victims, gender and relationship to offender, percentages, 2002
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Excludes New South Wales and Queensland (information not available).

Source

  • Australian Bureau of Statistics 2003, Recorded crime : victims, Australia 2002, cat. no. 4510.0, ABS, Canberra.

What this chart shows

  • Sixty-seven per cent of female victims of assault knew the offender compared with 33% of male victims.
  • Assaults against females were four times more likely to be perpetrated by a family member than those against males.
  • In contrast, 49% of male victims of assault were assaulted by strangers, compared with only 21% of female victims.

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