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Homicide victim-offender relationship statistics
Homicide victims, relationship to offender, 2005-06 (percent)
a: Includes acquaintances
b: Other includes business associates, employee/employer, colleagues and other relationships
Source: Source: Davies, M & Mouzos J 2007. Homicide in Australia : 2005-06 National Homicide Monitoring Program (NHMP) annual report. Research and public policy series no, 77. Canberra: AIC
- The victim-offender relationship for homicide differs according to the gender of the victims.
- Male victims in 2005-06 were more likely than female victims to be killed by a friend or acquaintance (38% and 16%, respectively) whereas female victims were more likely than male victims to be killed by an intimate partner (48% and 7%, respectively).
- Female victims were slightly more likely than male victims to have been killed by a family member (21% and 16% respectively).
- 11% of female victims were killed by a person unknown to them, a 9% increase from 2004-05. However, this is still noticeably less than the percentage of male victims killed by a stranger (33%).
| n | Intimates | Family | Friends/acquaintances | Strangers | Other(a) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| a: other includes work colleagues, employee/employer, former employee/employer, gang members and former gang members | ||||||
| b: excludes eight cases where the relationship between the offender and the victim is unknown | ||||||
| Source: Davies, M & Mouzos J 2007. Homicide in Australia : 2005-06 National Homicide Monitoring Program (NHMP) annual report. Research and public policy series no, 77. Canberra: AIC: 67 | ||||||
| New South Wales | 117 | 15 | 17 | 35 | 26 | 7 |
| Victoria | 72 | 24 | 19 | 24 | 31 | 3 |
| Queensland | 66 | 29 | 23 | 21 | 24 | 3 |
| Western Australia | 33 | 24 | 12 | 39 | 24 | 0 |
| South Australia | 24 | 25 | 38 | 17 | 21 | 0 |
| Tasmania | 3 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 0 | 0 |
| Australian Capital Territory | 7 | 0 | 43 | 0 | 57 | 0 |
| Northern Territory | 28 | 18 | 4 | 57 | 21 | 0 |
| Australia(b) | 350 | 21 | 19 | 30 | 26 | 3 |