🗞️Australian Homicide Incident Rate Rises Slightly in 2022-2023

The most recent results from the National Homicide Monitoring Programme were made public today by the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC). This covers the Homicide in Australia 2022–2023 report as well as the Homicide in Australia 2022–2023 report, which were released on time thanks to improved procedures. According to the Homicide in Australia 2022–23 report, between July 1, 2022, and June 30, 2023, 232 homicide incidents were reported to Australian state and territory police. Of those incidents, 260 offenders and 247 victims were involved. According to Dr. Rick Brown, Deputy Director of the Australian Crime Commission, Australia's 2022–2023 homicide incident rate of 0.87 per 100,000 was 4% higher than the year before. Still, it was a 52% decrease in homicide incidents since the start of the statistical programme in 1989–1990.

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“Sixty-nine per cent of homicide victims in 2022–23 were male, with a homicide victimisation rate of 7.65 per 100,000 for Indigenous males compared with 1.04 per 100,000 for non-Indigenous males. The homicide victimisation rate for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander females was 3.07 per 100,000, compared with 0.45 per 100,000 for non-Indigenous females.

“In 2022‒23, 16% of homicide incidents were intimate partner homicides (IPH) and 89% of these were perpetrated against a female victim aged 18 years or over.

Dr. Brown said “The findings of the report confirm through state and territory police offence records and coronial records that female IPH increased by 28%, from 0.25 homicides per 100,000 in 2021–22, to 0.32 per 100,000 in 2022–23.”

“The figures in this latest report provide an important baseline to measure progress towards achieving the national targets outlined in the National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children 2022–2032, to reduce female IPH by 25% per year over 5 years,” Dr Brown said.

The AIC is also developing a statistical dashboard, as announced by Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus in a joint media release in November 2023, with data to be updated on a quarterly basis. This will be released mid-year and will continue to provide more timely reporting on intimate partner homicide.

The latest Homicide in Australia reports can be found on the AIC website.

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