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Awarding exceptional crime and violence prevention programs making a difference to local communities
Nominations are now open for the 2023 Australian Crime and Violence Prevention Awards (ACVPAs). The ACVPAs recognise and reward good practice in the prevention or reduction of violence and other types of crime in Australia.
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- 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
Today the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) has released new statistics on homicide in Australia. Homicide in Australia 2020–21 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.
AIC Deputy Director Dr Rick Brown said that since 1989–90, the homicide incident rate in Australia has declined overall by 55%.
Warning: this paper contains graphic descriptions of child sexual abuse.
Twenty-seven presentations from the AIC 2022 conference are now available on CriminologyTV, the AIC’s YouTube channel.
Australian and international researchers and practitioners presented their findings and insights on a wide range of crime and justice topics.
Presentation subjects include sexual, domestic and family violence, CSAM, cybercrime, Indigenous justice, serious and organised crime, and youth justice.
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- Acknowledgements
- Abstract
- Executive summary
- Method
- Results
- Discussion
- Introduction
- Method
- Sampling and data collection
- Key definitions
- Limitations
- Sample
- Children as victim-survivors of violence in the home
- Intimate partner violence perpetrated against female carers
- Children's exposure to intimate partner violence perpetrated against their female carers
- Children as targets of direct abuse