TY - BOOK ED - New Zealand Police | Ngā Pirihimana o Aotearoa. TI - Police statistics on homicide victims in New Zealand 2007 - 2020: a summary of statistics about victims of murder, manslaughter, and infanticide SN - 1179-6650 PY - 2023/// CY - [Wellington, New Zealand : PB - Police National Headquarters, New Zealand Police KW - CRIME KW - HOMICIDE KW - CHILD HOMICIDE KW - INFANTICIDE KW - NZ Police homicide reports KW - OFFENDERS KW - VICTIMS OF CRIMES KW - STATISTICS KW - VIOLENT CRIMES KW - NEW ZEALAND N1 - Includes provisional data for 2021 (Appendix B). Released June 2022 N2 - Between 2007 – 2020 there were 1,005 people killed by homicide (i.e., murder and manslaughter offences). Māori account for approximately a third of homicide victims. Males represented 65 percent of all victims. The lowest annual homicide figure of 46 was in 2017. Around 7 out of 10 homicides were murders. Of all family-linked homicide victims, 44% were male and 56% were female. Around 16% of homicides were committed by a current or ex-partner – 74% of these victims were female. Children under the age of five made up 10 percent of homicide victims. For family violence statistics see: https://nzfvc.org.nz/family-violence-statistics/ Record #8407 UR - https://www.police.govt.nz/sites/default/files/publications/homicide-victims-report-2021.pdf UR - https://www.police.govt.nz/about-us/publication/homicide-victims-report-2020-and-historic-nz-murder-rate-report-1926-2020 ER -