During 2005-06, there were 283 incidents of homicide, resulting in 301 victims, committed by 336 offenders. This is 34 more incidents than in 2004-05, an increase of 14 percent. There has been an increase in homicides committed by young males, but yearly fluctuations in homicide patterns are quite common, and the increase in the number...

Jenny Mouzos presents information on the circumstances and characteristics of homicide in Australia for 2003-04. This report also contains jurisdictional breakdowns for comparative purposes and some long-term trend data across the fifteen-year NHMP data collection period. In 2003-04, there was a total of 288 incidents of homicide recorded. These were committed by 310 offenders and...

In 2003-2004, the Small Arms Survey completed a series of research projects across 20 nations of the southwest Pacific.1 One of these, a survey of the proliferation of small arms and firearm-related violence in the strife-torn Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea (Alpers, 2005), relies on a range of background information, field interviews from 19...

In this paper Jenny Mouzos provides a critical analysis of the data from AIC's National Homicide Monitoring Program and ABS data on causes of death and recorded crime. It also examines the extent to which they differ and how those differences have changed over time.

On some occasions, the act of homicide is a 'side effect' or unplanned consequence of another criminal act, for example robbery or sexual assault. Of the 4,108 homicide incidents that occurred in Australia between 1989 and 2002, 542 (13%) occurred in the course of another crime, and 56% of such 'crime homicides' occurred during the...