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Research and Public Policy Series

Deaths caused by firearms, Australian States and Territories, 1983-94

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Violent deaths and firearms in Australia : data and trends
Satyanshu Mukherjee and Carlos Carcach
ISBN 0 642 24017 5 ; ISSN 1326-6004
Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology, 1996
(Research and Public Policy Series, no. 4)

Abstract

Graphs by state show all deaths caused by firearms, firearm related suicides, and firearm related homicides, comparing genders. For each state a table provides data on deaths caused by firearms over the period 1983 until 1994, which is broken down by gender of victims and according to whether death was caused by accident, suicide, assault, legal intervention or unknown.