TY  - BOOK
ED  - New Zealand Police | Ngā Pirihimana o Aotearoa.
TI  - Police statistics on homicide victims in New Zealand 2007 - 2021: a summary of statistics about victims of murder, manslaughter, and infanticide
SN  - 1179-6650
PY  - 2024///
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 2022 (Appendix B). Released June  2024
N2  - Report at a glance:

Between 2007 – 2021 there were 1,076 people killed by homicide (i.e., murder and manslaughter offences).

Māori account for approximately a third of homicide victims.

Males represented 66 percent of all victims.

The lowest annual homicide figure of 46 was in 2017.

About a third of all homicides were murders.

Of all family-linked homicide victims, 44% were male and 56% were female.

Around 15% of homicides were committed by a current or ex-partner – 74% of these victims were female.

Children under the age of five made up 11 percent of homicide victims.

Provisionally, 93 homicide victimisations are reported for 2022.

Note: Driving causing death offences are currently not included in this report. (From the website). 

For more family violence statistics data, see: https://nzfvc.org.nz/family-violence-statistics/ 
Record #8847

UR  - https://www.police.govt.nz/sites/default/files/publications/homicide-victims-report-2022.pdf
UR  - https://www.police.govt.nz/sites/default/files/publications/historic-new-zealand-murder-offences-1926-2022.pdf
UR  - https://www.police.govt.nz/about-us/publication/homicide-victims-report-2022-and-historic-nz-murder-rate-report-1926-2022
ER  -