Crime and criminal justice statistics
Weapons
Types of weapon used in homicides in Australia, 2004-05 (percent)
Note: male victims n=175, female victims n=81. Excludes 10 victims (four males; six females) where type of weapon used was unknown, and one victim whose gender was unknown.
a: Other includes explosives, fire, poison, drugs, vehicles and other weapons.
Source: AIC National Homicide Monitoring Program 2004-05 [computer file]
Proportion of victims, by use of weapon in commission of offence, 2001 and 2002
Source: Australian Institute of Criminology 2003. Weapon use in commission of an offence. Crime facts info no. 62, 11 November. http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/cfi/cfi062.html
| Crime type | Percent of crime type | Total n | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firearm | Knife | Other weapon | No weapon | ||
| Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) 2006. Recorded Crime - Victims, ABS, Canberra | |||||
| Murder | 16.5 | 33.7 | 12.9 | 36.9 | 279 |
| Attempted Murder | 25.3 | 35.3 | 13.3 | 26.1 | 241 |
| Kidnap/ Abduction | 5.0 | 9.7 | 3.7 | 81.6 | 723 |
| Robbery | 6.9 | 21.5 | 15.1 | 56.5 | 17,284 |
Further information
Charts, tables and fact sheets
- Key facts: Criminal use of handguns in Australia, 2007
- Selected crime profiles (Chapter 2 from Australian crime : facts and figures 2006):
- Homicides involving firearms as a percentage of total homicides, 1915-2004
- Robbery, type of weapon, 2005
- Australian firearm thefts, 2004-05
- Homicides in Australia 2004-05 : weapon type
- Armed robbery in Australia : weapon use by location, 2004
- Weapon combinations used in armed robbery, 2003
- Number of firearm related deaths, 1991-2001
- Firearms stolen in Australia, 1994-95 to 1999-2000
- Armed robbery by type of weapon in Australia 1996-1998
Other publications and data sources
Australia
- National Armed Robbery Monitoring Program annual reports
- National Firearms Theft Monitoring Program annual reports
- Firearm related deaths in Australia, 1991-2001
Jenny Mouzos and Catherine Rushforth, 2003 - Weapon use - Tasmania
Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2002 - Weapon use
Australian Bureau of Statistics, Year book Australia, 2002 - Firearm-related morbidity in Australia, 1994-95 to 1998-99
Jenny Mouzos, 2001 - Weapon involvement in armed robbery
Jenny Mouzos and Carlos Carcach, 2001 - Firearms and violent crime in New South Wales
Jacqueline Fitzgerald, Suzanne Briscoe and Don Weatherburn, NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics bulletin, 2001 - Firearm-related deaths in Australia 1998
Jenny Mouzos, 2000 - Firearms
Office of Economic and Statistical Research (Qld), statistics bulletin, 1998 - Firearms deaths in Australia
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 1999 - Injury by firearms Australia 1994
J Harrison, J Moller and S Bordeaux, 1996
Other countries
- Firearms research and statistics
UK Home Office, Research Development & Statistics - Firearms and crime statistics
US Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics
Related links
- Topic: Weapons
- Statistics: Armed robbery