NCJ Number
224868
Editor(s)
David Povey
Date Published
January 2008
Length
101 pages
Annotation
As one of a series of supplementary volumes that accompany the main 2006/07 volume of Crime in England and Wales 2006/07, this report has chapters on homicide, firearm, and intimate-partner-violence (IPV) offenses, which contain mostly statistics on such crimes recorded by the police.
Abstract
The chapter on homicide contains statistics on offenses initially recorded as homicide by police; statistics relevant to victims (method of killing, relationship between victims and suspects, victims under 16 years old, circumstance of the homicides, and risks for different age groups); and statistics on suspects (outcomes for all suspects and previous homicide convictions. The chapter on recorded crimes involving firearms contains statistics on the number of firearm crimes in 2006/07. Individual tables address how firearms were used, the type of weapon used, injuries in crimes that involved firearms, types of crimes in which firearms were used, geographic distribution of firearm offenses, robberies in which firearms were used, the age of victims of firearm crimes, and stolen firearms. The chapter on IPV offenses provides data that show the prevalence of IPV offenses, the nature of partner abuse, and the nature of serious sexual assault. Extensive figures and tables