This report provides a summary of the "New Zealand National Survey of Crime Victims 1996" (NZNSCV) (1997), and the supplementary 1996 "Women's Safety Survey" (1997). The aim of the NZNSCV is to provide another set of crime statistics to those of the Police, and to identify victimisation risk, the effects, and the circumstances of crime. Violent offending (including family violence) and sexual offending rates are discussed, and the needs of victims are explored. A random sample of 5,000 New Zealand people aged 15 years and over comprise the participants of this first survey. Five hundred female participants were randomly selected from a group of respondents in the NZNSCV who had identified that they either currently lived with a male partner, or had done so in the last 2 years. This survey aims to measure the extent, context, circumstances and effects of violence on women. Survey limitations are explored, and the initial responses of government and agencies are briefly mentioned in this report. No longer available online. Held in National Library of New Zealand.