Crime and criminal justice statistics
Victims of crime - Females
Percentage of women reporting physical and sexual violence, 2002-2003
* Intimate partner includes current and former boyfriend, husband or livein partner
** Non-partner includes relative, friend, acquaintance, work colleague or stranger
Source: Australian Institute of Criminology 2006. Australian crime : facts and figures 2005. Canberra: AIC. http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/facts/2005/
Further information
- Crime victimisation : Women's reports of victimisation (Chapter 3 from Australian crime : facts and figures 2004)
- Full report: Women's experiences of male violence: findings from the Australian component of the International violence against women survey (IVAWS)
Charts/fact sheets
- Controlling behaviours of male partners
- Childhood victimisation as indicators of adult victimisation
- Homicides resulting from domestic altercations higher for women
Other publications and data sources
Australia
- National data on violence against women
Australian Government Office for Women - Measuring violence against women : a review of the literature and statistics
Janet Phillips and Malcolm Park. Australian Parliamentary Library, 2004 - Violence and safety
New South Wales Department for Women, 2004 - Predicting women's responses to violence : the 1996 Women's Safety Survey (PDF 132kB)
Christine Coumarelos and Jacqui Allen. New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, 1999 - Women's fear of violence in the community
Carlos Carcach and Satyanshu Mukherjee, 1999 - Violence against women
Australian Bureau of Statistics. In Year book Australia 2002 - Predicting violence against women : the 1996 Women's Safety Survey (PDF 267kB)
Christine Coumarelos and Jacqui Allen. New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, 1998 - Violence against women
Australian Bureau of Statistics. In Australian social trends 1997 - Women's safety, Australia | Women's safety survey
Australian Bureau of Statistics, 1996 - Women and victims and offenders (PDF 57kB)
New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, 1995
- International Crime Victim Surveys 2004
Reports from the Australian component of the ICVS, undertaken by the Australian Institute of Criminology - The Australian component of the 2000 International Crime Victims Survey (ICVS)
Carlos Carcach and Toni Makkai, 2003
Other countries and international
- Extent, nature, and consequences of rape victimization : findings from the National Violence Against Women Survey
National Institute of Justice (US), 2006 - Domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking : findings from the British Crime Survey (PDF 562kB)
Sylvia Walby and Jonathan Allen. Home Office (UK), 2004 - Focusing on women 2005 : crime
Statistics New Zealand, 2004 - Assessing violence against women : a statistical profile
Federal-Provincial-Territorial Ministers Responsible for the Status of Women, Canada, 2002 - Full report of the prevalence, incidence, and consequences of violence against women : findings from the National Violence Against Women Survey
National Institute of Justice (US), 2000 - Extent, nature, and consequences of intimate partner violence : findings from the National Violence Against Women Survey
National Institute of Justice (US), 2000 - International Crime Victims Surveys | ICVS publications
UNODC and UNICRI. Further information and reports from previous surveys - Criminal victimisation in seventeen industrialised countries : key-findings from the 2000 international Crime Victims Survey
J N van Kesteren, P Mayhew and P Nieuwbeerta. Dutch Ministry of Justice, 2000
Related links
- Statistics: Family / domestic violence; Sexual assault and violence
- Topics: Women and crime; Family / domestic violence