The National Homicide Monitoring Program is Australia’s only national data collection on homicide incidents, victims and offenders. This report describes 264 homicide incidents recorded by Australian state and territory police between 1 July 2024 and 30 June 2025. During this 12-month period there were 279 victims of homicide and 271 identified offenders.

A study comparing crime and safety in New South Wales (NSW) with other Australian states and territories for violent and property crime. Overall, the analysis demonstrates that crime rates in NSW are generally low compared to other Australian states and territories. However, sexual assault stands out as an offence of concern.

This factsheet reports on the number of people sentenced in Victorian courts in 2023–24 for committing a serious offence while serving a community correction order. Serious offences include serious violent offences and sexual offences. The three most common serious offences were: make threat to kill, aggravated burglary and make threat to inflict serious injury.

This New South Wales study of people diagnosed with psychosis found that 15% committed a violent offence, most commonly within four years following diagnosis. Community treatment orders are an increasingly implemented violence prevention tool for those with severe mental illness. The findings suggest a heightened need for violence prevention efforts in the first four years...

The Violence Risk Scale (VRS) is a tool designed to assess and predict risk of future offending, inform decisions around therapeutic intervention and measure changes in violence risk as a result of treatment. This study investigated the discriminative and predictive validity of the VRS for Australian Aboriginal and non-Indigenous males convicted of violent offending in...