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Female victims of crime

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
• 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

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