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Police statistics on homicide victims in New Zealand for the period 2007 to 2008 : a summary of statistics about victims of murder, manslaughter, and infanticide

Contributor(s): New Zealand Police | Ngā Pirihimana o Aotearoa.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: NZ Police homicide report.Publisher: [Wellington, N.Z.: Police National Headquarters, April 2011Description: 12 p.Subject(s): STATISTICS | HOMICIDE | CHILD HOMICIDE | INFANTICIDE | OFFENDERS | VICTIMS OF CRIMES | VIOLENT CRIMES | CRIME | NEW ZEALANDDDC classification: 364.042 Online resources: Click here to access online | Access the website Summary: This report is released coincident with calendar year Official Statistics for recorded crime in New Zealand. Official Statistics for recorded crime count the number of recorded and resolved offences as well as the number of apprehensions of offenders for the resolved offences. They provide demographic attributes of offenders, but do not include information about victims of crime. While it is not currently feasible to produce comprehensive statistics on victims of crime from New Zealand Police records, since there are fewer than 100 homicides in New Zealand each year, it is possible to produce this report containing statistics about victims of this limited set of very serious offences. (Background). Statistics for recorded apprehensions for offences occurring during the 2010 calendar year are being published coincident with this report on 1 April 2011. For this reason data for 2010 has been included though this information may change as investigations continue. Updated figures for both 2009 and 2010 will be included in the main body of future editions this report, after they have stabilised. Data tables in this report cover offender type, age of victim, ethnicity of victim, relationhip of victim to offender, weapon and location. Appendix A: Figures for the 2010 calendar year; Appendix B: Relationship Definitions
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This report is released coincident with calendar year Official Statistics for recorded crime in New Zealand.
Official Statistics for recorded crime count the number of recorded and resolved offences as well as the number of apprehensions of offenders for the resolved offences. They provide demographic attributes of offenders, but do not include information about victims of crime.
While it is not currently feasible to produce comprehensive statistics on victims of crime from New Zealand Police records, since there are fewer than 100 homicides in New Zealand each year, it is possible to produce this report containing statistics about victims of this limited set of very serious offences. (Background). Statistics for recorded apprehensions for offences occurring during the 2010 calendar year are being published coincident with this report on 1 April 2011. For this reason data for 2010 has been included though this information may change as investigations continue. Updated figures for both 2009 and 2010 will be included in the main body of future editions this report, after they have stabilised.
Data tables in this report cover offender type, age of victim, ethnicity of victim, relationhip of victim to offender, weapon and location. Appendix A: Figures for the 2010 calendar year; Appendix B: Relationship Definitions