A weapon is defined as any object used to cause injury or fear of injury. It also includes imitation weapons and implied weapons (e.g. where a weapon is not seen by the victim but the offender claims to possess one). Parts of the body such as fists or feet are not included.
VICTIMS OF REPORTED CRIME(a), By Use of Weapon in Commission of Offence, Tasmania - 2002 |
|
 | Weapon used
| | | |
| Firearm | Knife | Syringe | Other
weapon | Total(b) | No weapon
used | Total
victims | Total
victims |
Offence category |
%
|
%
|
%
|
%
|
%
|
%
|
%
|
no.
|
|
| Murder | 14.3 | 28.6 | - | 14.3 | 57.1 | 42.9 | 100.0 | 7 |
| Attempted murder | - | - | - | 66.7 | 66.7 | 33.3 | 100.0 | 3 |
| Assault | 1.3 | 4.0 | - | 11.5 | 17.0 | 83.0 | 100.0 | 3,633 |
| Sexual assault | 0.4 | - | - | 2.5 | 2.9 | 97.1 | 100.0 | 240 |
| Kidnapping/abduction | - | - | - | 12.5 | 12.5 | 87.5 | 100.0 | 8 |
| Robbery | 3.7 | 22.8 | - | 10.3 | 37.5 | 62.5 | 100.0 | 136 |
|
- nil or rounded to zero
(a) Victims of armed robbery refers to individual persons or organisations. All other offence categories used in this table refer to individual persons.
(b) Includes data where a weapon was used but was not further defined.
Source: Data Cube from Recorded Crime, Australia (cat. no. 4510.0). |
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