Homicide in Australia report shows almost half the women murdered last financial year were killed by a current or former intimate partnerThe Australia n Institute of Criminology's Homicide in Australia report shows 49 per cent of female victims of homicide were killed by a former or current intimate partner in the 2022-23 financial year.
The report also said a shift had occurred when it came to the homicide victims of non-Indigenous males. "Generally the patterns are much the same. We've just had this increase in the number of female victims , but similar numbers to what we were seeing two or three years ago."So this increase that was seen into this year may well just be a reflection … of a pattern that we've seen in pre-COVID years, or may represent another increase in intimate partner homicide which we just haven't seen over the last three decades.
In Australia, homicide is classified into three categories based on the relationship between the primary victim and the primary offender.— where the victim was the friend or acquaintance of the primary offender or was otherwise known to the primary offender;Dr Bricknell said usually the rates of domestic and acquaintance homicide were "fairly similar proportionally across the year", but the 2022-23 report did not follow that trend.
Dr Bricknell said overall homicide rates in Australia had decreased by 52 per cent over the last 34 years.
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