Homicides, firearm offences and intimate violence 2006/07
The Home Office has published a bulletin containing detailed statistics about the nature and extent of violent crime in England and Wales in 2006/07.
The Home Office has published a bulletin containing detailed statistics about the nature and extent of violent crime in England and Wales in 2006/07.
They include in-depth police recorded crime figures on homicides and firearm offences and British Crime Survey (BCS) results for intimate violence (partner and family abuse, sexual assault and stalking).
Statistical Bulletin 03/08 is one of a series of supplementary volumes that accompany the main 2006/07 crime volume, Crime in England and Wales 2006/07.
Some of the main findings from the bulletin show:
?There were 757 deaths initially recorded as homicides in England and Wales, based on cases recorded by the police in 2006/07(a decrease of 2 per cent since 2005/06).
?75 per cent of homicide victims were male.
?The most common method of killing involved a sharp instrument (35 per cent).
?There were 59 shooting victims in 2006/07, compared to 49 in 2005/06.
?Female victims were more likely to be killed by someone they knew.
?68 per cent of female victims knew the main suspect, compared to 44 per cent of male victims.
?62 per cent of victims aged under 16 knew the main suspect.
?Overall, the risk of being a victim of homicide was 13.7 per million population.
?Persons aged between 21 and 29 (inclusive) were the most at-risk age group, at 27 per million population.
?Firearms (including air weapons) offences made up 0.3 per cent of all recorded crimes in 2006/07.
?3 per cent of firearm offences resulted in a serious or fatal injury in 2006/07.
?More than half of all non-air weapon firearm offences were committed in just three police force areas in 2006/07: Metropolitan, Greater Manchester and West Midlands.
?21 police officers were injured by a firearm while on duty in 2006/07, three of them seriously. CS gas sprays accounted for 10 injuries.
?There is little evidence, overall, of changing trends in the prevalence of intimate violence between the 2004/05 and 2006/07 BCS.
?Women were more likely than men to have experienced intimate violence across all types of abuse (partner abuse, family abuse, sexual assault and stalking).
?Overall, 24 per cent of people aged 16 to 59 were victims of any partner abuse since the age of 16; 5 per cent experienced this type of abuse in the last year. The majority of victims since the age of 16 suffered abuse by one partner solely (84 per cent). 13 per cent of victims reported the abuse to the police.
?Overall, 3 per cent of people aged 16 to 59 had experienced serious sexual assault since the age of 16 and just under half of victims (46 per cent) had experienced serious sexual assault on more than one occasion. 11 per cent of victims reported the assault to the police.
The bulletin, Homicides, Firearm Offences and Intimate Violence 2006/07 (Supplementary volume to Crime in England and Wales 2006/07), can be found at http:// www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs08/hosb0308.pdf