Abstract
The National Homicide Monitoring Program is Australia’s only national data collection on homicide incidents, victims and offenders. This report describes the 210 homicide incidents recorded by Australian state and territory police between 1 July 2020 and 30 June 2021. During this 12-month period there were 221 victims of homicide and 263 identified offenders.
Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Homicide incidents
- Incident clearance rates
- Most serious charge
- Homicide classification
- Location of homicide incidents
- Circumstances
- Weapon use
- Alcohol- and drug-related homicides
- Victims of homicide
- Victim sex and place of birth
- Child and adult victims of homicide
- Victim relationship with offender
- Indigenous victims of homicide
- Non-Indigenous victims of homicide
- Victim cause of death
- Homicide offenders
- Sex and age of homicide offenders
- Indigenous offenders
- Non-Indigenous offenders
- Victim and offender criminal histories
- Offender mental health
- References
- Appendix