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Australian crime : facts and figures 2003

Sexual assault

Sexual assault victims, gender and relationship to offender, percentages, 2002
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Excludes NSW 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

  • Most sexual assaults (66%) were committed by a person known to the victim.
  • One in five sexual assaults was perpetrated by a family member.
  • In about 44% of sexual assaults the offender was a non-family member known to the victim.
  • Twenty-four per cent of sexual assaults were committed by strangers. Females were more likely than males to be sexually assaulted by strangers.

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