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Feb 7, 2019 · As in previous years, the majority of homicide victims in the year ending March 2018 were male (69%, 499 victims) and 31% were female (227 victims). The number of male victims has increased at a faster rate than females in recent years. The figure of 499 male victims of homicide was an increase of 54% from 324 in the year ending March 2015.
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As in previous years, the majority of homicide victims in the year ending March 2019 were male. Just under two-thirds were male victims (64%) and just over a third were female (36%). The number of female victims in the year ending March 2019 was the highest since the year ending March 2006 (also 241) and represented the second consecutive annual in...
The most common age-group for victims of homicides recorded in the year ending March 2019 was 25- to 34-year-olds (136 victims). This was followed by 16- to 24-year-olds (113 victims), and 35- to 44-year-olds (107 victims) and 45- to 54- year-olds (107 victims). (Figure 3). As in previous years, children under the age of 1 had the highest rate of h...
Just under three-quarters (475 or 71%) of all homicide victims in the year ending March 2019 were from the White ethnic group.3This was a decrease of 33 victims (from 508) compared with the year ending March 2018. There were 97 Black victims in the last year, accounting for 14% of all victims. This is an increase of four homicides compared with the...
Feb 9, 2023 · Table of contents. 1. Main Points. Homicide returned to pre-coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic levels, with 696 victims in the latest year; this is 130 more (a 23% increase) than the year ending March 2021 when government restrictions meant there was less social contact. The homicide rate was 11.7 per million population, with the rate for males ...
Jun 12, 2020 · Between 2004 and 2014, the national rate excluding Greater London decreased steadily, from a high of 4.3 homicides per million to a low of 2.5 in 2014. In London however, rates of sharp instrument homicide peaked in 2007 (driving a national-level peak) and subsequently experienced a major drop of 40% by 2009.
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Mar 5, 2020 · Police numbers in England and Wales fell by 21,000 from 2010-18 - and community support officers by 6,000. And the rate of murders and manslaughters soared by 39% in the three years to March 2018 ...
Homicide rates for males aged 15 to 44 tripled from 1960 to 1980 and then continued to rise, driving the peak in the early 2000s and the fall thereafter. In fact, over the last 40 years homicides against males aged 15 to 44 have driven all the main overall trends. 1.4. Trends for homicide suspects.
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Jan 24, 2019 · The number of homicides - including murder and manslaughter - rose from 649 to 739, an increase of 14%, in the 12 months to the end of September 2018. It is the the highest total for such crimes ...
