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Australian crime : facts and figures 2003

Victimisation reports

Percentage of victims by number of incidents of victimisation in the 12 months prior to April 2002 ^*
Incident type	Percentage
Incident type	1 incident	2 incidents	3 or more incidents
Break-in	82.1	12.1	5.8
Motor vehicle theft	93.0	7.0^*
Robbery	74.0	14.2	11.8
Assault	48.9	18.8	32.3
Sexual assault^**	66.1	33.9^*
^* Includes those who were victimised two times or more, due to low sample counts for these offences. ^** Includes only female victims of sexual assault. Sources: Australian Bureau of Statistics 1999, Crime and safety, Australia 1998, cat. no. 4509.0, ABS, Canberra. Australian Bureau of Statistics 2003, Crime and safety, Australia 2002, cat. no. 4509.0, ABS, Canberra.

Repeat victimisation over the 12-month period prior to 2002 was most common for assault, with 51% of victims reporting two or more, and one third reporting three or more.
One third of sexual assault victims experienced two or more incidents in the 12 months prior to the survey.
Repeat victimisation of household offences declined in 2002 compared with 1998, whereas repeat victimisation of personal offences increased in 2002.