Table 36 Victim and victimisation rates (a), by selected offences

Table 36

Victim and victimisation rates (a), by selected offences

	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
NUMBER
Homicide and related offences	969	1 020	1 066	979	958	789
Murder	344	316	310	318	302	256
Attempted murder	360	393	459	399	361	307
Manslaughter	41	46	37	48	39	37
Driving causing death	224	265	260	214	256	189
Kidnapping/abduction	766	695	767	706	696	768
Robbery	22 606	23 336	26 591	20 989	19 709	16 490
Armed robbery	9 452	9 483	11 233	7 840	7 189	5 993
Unarmed robbery	13 154	13 853	15 358	13 149	12 520	10 497
Blackmail/extortion	254	255	358	355	386	370
Unlawful entry with intent	415 735	436 968	435 754	394 323	354 020	308 368
Property theft (b)	322 983	n.a.	325 220	292 748	262 657	224 638
Other (b)	92 752	n.a.	110 534	101 575	91 363	83 730
Motor vehicle theft (c)	129 552	138 912	139 894	113 460	98 298	87 916
Other theft (d)	612 559	681 268	700 137	680 799	624 036	547 800
RATE (e)
Homicide and related offences	5.1	5.3	5.5	5.0	4.8	3.9
Murder	1.8	1.6	1.6	1.6	1.5	1.3
Attempted murder	1.9	2.1	2.4	2.0	1.8	1.5
Manslaughter	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2
Driving causing death	1.2	1.4	1.3	1.1	1.3	0.9
Kidnapping/abduction	4.0	3.6	4.0	3.6	3.5	3.8
Robbery	119.4	121.8	137.0	106.9	99.2	82.0
Armed robbery	49.9	49.5	57.9	39.9	36.2	29.8
Unarmed robbery	69.5	72.3	79.1	67.0	63.0	52.2
Blackmail/extortion	1.3	1.3	1.8	1.8	1.9	1.8
Unlawful entry with intent	2 195.7	2 281.3	2 244.9	2 007.9	1 781.7	1 533.5
Property theft (b)	1 705.8	n.a.	1 675.5	1 490.7	1 321.9	1 117.1
Other (b)	489.9	n.a.	569.5	517.2	459.8	416.4
Motor vehicle theft (c)	684.2	725.2	720.7	577.7	494.7	437.2
Other theft (d)	3 235.2	3 556.8	3 607.0	3 466.7	3 140.6	2 724.2

(a) Recorded by police in all jurisdictions. Depending on the type of offence recorded, a victim may be a person, a premise, an organisation or a motor vehicle.

(b) A change in the legislation related to unlawful entry with intent (UEWI) offences in SA resulted in an inability to provide UEWI disaggregated into property theft and other for 2000.

(c) Prior to 2002, NT police incorrectly included theft of motor vehicle parts and contents and some theft n.e.c. in the count of motor vehicle theft. Since 2002, these offences were correctly included in the other theft offence category.

(d) Prior to 2004, counts of UEWI involving the taking of property were included in this offence category as well as in other theft for South Australia. The 2003 data for other theft have been revised to exclude counts of UEWI involving the taking of property, resulting in a break in the time series for other theft.

(e) Per 100,000 persons.

Prison population

120. The total prison population on 30 June 2005 was 25,353. There were 23,619 male prisoners, comprising 93 per cent of the total prisoner population. The median age of prisoners was 32 years for both males and females. The majority (52 per cent or 13,178) of prisoners were young adult males aged 20-34 years. NSW had the highest proportion of prisoners (39 per cent), followed by Queensland (21 per cent).

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