4510.0 - Recorded Crime - Victims, Australia, 2010

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NORTHERN TERRITORY

In 2010, there were 32 victims of homicide in the Northern Territory of whom 69% were male and 25% female. Victims of homicide had known the offender in 47% of cases, with 13% being the victim of a partner.

There were 313 victims of sexual assault of whom 286 (91%) were female. The profile of relationship of offender to victim was different for male and female victims: 12% of male victims of sexual assault were victimised by a family member and 12% by a stranger, whereas 23% of female victims of sexual assault were victimised by a family member (including 8% who were the victim of a partner) and 23% were victimised by a stranger. Among non-Indigenous victims of sexual assault, 17% were victimised by a family member, compared with 29% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander victims.

VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT, Relationship of offender to victim by Indigenous status-Northern Territory
Graph: VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT, Relationship of offender to victim by Indigenous status–Northern Territory

Graph: VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT, Relationship of offender to victim by Indigenous status–Northern Territory

In 2010, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in the Northern Territory were more than twice as likely as non-Indigenous persons to be victims of sexual assault. The victimisation rate for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander victims of sexual assault was 207.7 victims per 100,000, compared to 92.9 victims per 100,000 for non-Indigenous persons. By contrast, non-Indigenous Northern Territorians were victims of robbery at more than three times the rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (46.8 victims per 100,000 non-Indigenous persons compared to 14.4 victims per 100,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders).

There were 91 person victims of robbery in the Northern Territory of whom 74% were male. Almost 80% of robbery victims reported that the offender was a stranger.