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This data appears in condensed form in normal html format from the Statistics Department It has been from all the above data that we extracted the data in the main statistical comparison here
New Zealand Crime from Yearbooks, census and police data

. 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
Crime Type .
Total Crime 477,596 473,547 461,677 438,074 427,230 426,526 440,129 442,489 406,363 407,496 424,134
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Total Violence 39,866 40,121 40,441 39,688 41,573 44,024 44,960 45,614 45,229 48,337 50,731
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Homicide (total) 109 151 99 99 99 93 122 104 86 109 98
Murder 63 89 64 61 66 62 77 65 60 73 63
Attempted homicide 43 61 32 32 31 31 41 34 24 30 34
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Kidnapping and abduction 144 164 200 155 159 161 211 227 201 203 263
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Sexual total 3,780 3,220 3,293 3,026 3,314 3,109 3,508 3,250 3,074 3,271 3,524
Sexual attacks 2,384 2,070 2,149 1,985 2,107 2,138 2,500 2,206 2,173 2,179 2,476
Other Sexual offences* 1,396 1,150 1,144 1,041 1,207 971 1,008 1,044 901 1,092 1,048
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Total assaults 37,722 37,691 37,927 37,512 39,165 41,729 42,328 42,915 42,522 45,386 47,112
Robbery 1,833 2,032 2,004 1,585 1,779 1,658 1,836 1,874 1,971 2,213 2,801
Grevious assaults 2,139 2,352 2,512 2,495 2,714 2,896 3,013 3,198 3,384 3,836 4,116
Serious assaults 14,565 13,645 13,305 13,463 14,154 14,593 14,602 15,086 15,535 16,619 17,729
Minor assaults 13,850 13,765 13,956 13,229 13,309 13,973 14,197 13,407 12,908 13,014 12,700
Intimidation And Threats 7,168 7,929 8,154 8,325 8,988 10,267 10,516 11,224 10,695 11,917 12,567
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Property damage 40,925 40,193 38,097 39,213 40,515 40,743 40,864 43,680 41,332 43,577 48,820
Other property* 22,731 22,828 20,914 20,046 21,099 21,354 21,992 20,921 19,663 18,730 17,375
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Drugs and Antisocial* 50,410 54,052 57,276 56,051 53,340 55,043 55,366 58,822 54,451 51,830 54,947
Administrative* 9,818 10,602 11,462 10,975 12,639 13,251 14,523 14,900 12,015 11,264 11,903
Dishonesty 310,066 302,531 290,194 269,075 254,750 249,002 258,916 255,302 230,599 230,487 236,834
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Population 3,732,060 3,781,540 3,814,670 3,834,980 3,857,410 3,881,010 3,939,000 4,009,280 4,061,600 4,098,570 4,098,570

Population Adjusted Statistics (Rates per 1,000 except for Homicide and kidnapping which are per 100,000)

. 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
Crime Type .
Total Crime 128.0 125.2 121.0 114.2 110.8 109.9 111.7 110.4 100.0 99.4 103.5
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Total Violence 10.7 10.6 10.6 10.3 10.8 11.3 11.4 11.4 11.1 11.8 12.4
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Homicide (total) 2.9 4.0 2.6 2.6 2.6 2.4 3.1 2.6 2.1 2.7 2.4
Murder 1.7 2.4 1.7 1.6 1.7 1.6 2.0 1.6 1.5 1.8 1.5
Attempted homicide 1.2 1.6 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 1.0 0.8 0.6 0.7 0.8
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Kidnapping and abduction 3.9 4.3 5.2 4.0 4.1 4.1 5.4 5.7 4.9 5.0 6.4
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Sexual total 1.0 0.9 0.9 0.8 0.9 0.8 0.9 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.9
Sexual attacks 0.6 0.5 0.6 0.5 0.5 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.5 0.5 0.6
Other Sexual offences* 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.3
. .
Total assaults 10.1 10.0 9.9 9.8 10.2 10.8 10.7 10.7 10.5 11.1 11.5
Robbery 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.5 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.7
Grevious assaults 0.6 0.6 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.9 1.0
Serious assaults 3.9 3.6 3.5 3.5 3.7 3.8 3.7 3.8 3.8 4.1 4.3
Minor assaults 3.7 3.6 3.7 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.6 3.3 3.2 3.2 3.1
Intimidation And Threats 1.9 2.1 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.6 2.9 3.1
. .
Property damage 11.0 10.6 10.0 10.2 10.5 10.5 10.4 10.9 10.2 10.6 11.9
Other property* 6.1 6.0 5.5 5.2 5.5 5.5 5.6 5.2 4.8 4.6 4.2
. .
Drugs and Antisocial* 13.5 14.3 15.0 14.6 13.8 14.2 14.1 14.7 13.4 12.6 13.4
Administrative* 2.6 2.8 3.0 2.9 3.3 3.4 3.7 3.7 3.0 2.7 2.9
Dishonesty 83.1 80.0 76.1 70.2 66.0 64.2 65.7 63.7 56.8 56.2 57.8

* Other Sexual Offences include affronts, abnormal sexual relations, immoral behaviour, and indecent videos/DVDs. Other property offences include trespass, littering, animals (I shudder to think!), postal/fire/rail, and firearms. Drugs and antisocial includes residential tenancies, children and young persons offences, family offences, vagrancy, disorder, gaming, liquor, drugs , cannabis and others too trivial to be worth a breakdown. Administrative includes "against justice" (perjury, skipping bail and such), births/deaths/marriages, immigration, racial, against national interest and by-law breaches.

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