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In comparison to other English-speaking countries, such as New Zealand, United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States, Australia in 2020 had an overall crime rate of 6.87 per 100,000 people, while the overall crime rate in North America was higher, with 6.1 per 100,000 in Canada and 8.5 per 100,000 in the United States. The homicide rate in ...
Homicide rates (from firearms) per 100,000 people by country. [1]This is a list of countries by firearm-related homicide rate per 100,000 population by year.. Homicide figures may include justifiable homicides along with criminal homicides, depending upon jurisdiction and reporting standards.
The list of countries by homicide rate is derived from United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) data, and is expressed in number of deaths per 100,000 population per year. For example, a homicide rate of 30 out of 100,000 is presented in the table as "30", and corresponds to 0.03% of the population dying by homicide.
24 April 2019 – 32-year-old woman Natalina Angok, originally from South Sudan, was murdered by her boyfriend Christopher Bell in the Melbourne Chinatown, in the CBD. Bell reportedly suffered from schizophrenia and had been released from a psychiatric hospital a week before the murder. Bell had a history of committing domestic violence.
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Statistics released by the Crime Statistics Agency in September 2018 showed a 7.8% drop in the overall crime rate. The statistics showed the criminal incident rate fell to 5,922 cases per 100,000 people in the previous year, continuing a trend of reduction in the overall number of criminal incidents from the previous year, with significant falls in theft, burglaries and drug dealing.
Official numbers are considerably lower. Official 2018 statistics show only 46 deaths in police custody and 24 deaths of people in police/judicial remand and an additional 21 civilian killed during police operations for a total of 91 nationally. See Table 16A and 16B.4 of Official Govt. of India publication: Crime in India 2018 [48] [49] Australia
Crime rates declined towards the end of the century. [8] Crime and Punishment in the Colonies: A Statistical Profile (1986) [9] collates crime statistics for Tasmania from 1875, and shows a steep decline towards the end of the century in both the Supreme and magistrates' courts. Crime rates peaked in the late 1870s (about 3,600 convictions per ...