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1. D1WJ3B_Nonfatal-strangulation-and-suffocation-in-NZ_factsheet_v1.0.pdf [PDF, 269 KB]

   This factsheet attempts to quantify how many people experience non-strangulation/suffocation in New Zealand, using information from risk assessments, cases studies and population surveys.

2. Child victims of sexual violence in the criminal justice system [PDF, 191 KB]

   This factsheet is about child victims (children and young people (aged under 18) when they reported sexual assaults to the Police) in 2019, and how those reports have progressed through the criminal justice system since then.

3. Factsheet: The number of people impacted by family violence over time [PDF, 178 KB]

   Evidence suggests that the number of people impacted by family violence offending has been declining over the long-term. However, there is little evidence on whether this offending is being substituted with others of coercive and controlling behaviour.

4. ViolentCrime-SuppDataTables-May2025.xlsx [XLSX, 24 KB]

   Violent Crime supplementary data tables

5. ViolentCrime-DataTables-May2025.xlsx [XLSX, 37 KB]

   Violent Crime DataTables May2025 

6. ViolentOffending-FactSheet-May25-PDF.pdf [PDF, 253 KB]

   ViolentOffending FactSheet May25 PDF

7. ViolentOffending FactSheet Methodology February25PDF [PDF, 95 KB]

   ViolentOffending FactSheet Methodology February25PDF

8. ViolentOffending FactSheet Feb25 PDF [PDF, 257 KB]

   ViolentOffending FactSheet Feb25 PDF

9. ViolentOffending FactSheet Methodology feb25 PDF [PDF, 95 KB]

   ViolentOffending FactSheet Methodology feb25

10. ViolentOffending FactSheet Feb25 [DOCX, 360 KB]

    ViolentOffending FactSheet Feb25

11. ViolentOffending FactSheet Methodology feb25 [DOCX, 178 KB]

    ViolentOffending FactSheet Methodology feb25

12. Violent Offending Factsheet Oct24 pdf [PDF, 267 KB]

    Violent Offending Factsheet Oct24 pdf

13. Violent Offending Factsheet Methodology Oct24 pdf [PDF, 95 KB]

    Violent Offending Factsheet Methodology Oct24 pdf

14. Violent Offending Fact Sheet Oct24 [DOCX, 366 KB]

    Violent Offending Fact Sheet Oct24

15. ViolentOffending FactSheet Aug24 [PDF, 225 KB]

    The August 2024 factsheet summarises key findings in the August 2024 violent crime release and provides notes on the NZCVS methodology to help readers to interpret and understand the NZCVS violent crime August 2024 release.

16. Violent Offending Factsheet Methodology Jun24 pdf [PDF, 95 KB]

    The factsheet provides notes on the NZCVS methodology to help readers to interpret and understand the NZCVS violent crime June 2024 release

17. Violent Offending Factsheet Methodology Jun24 [DOCX, 175 KB]

    The June 2024 factsheet provides notes on the NZCVS methodology to help readers to interpret and understand the NZCVS violent crime June 2024 release.

18. NZCVS 5 years brochure Web [PDF, 1.4 MB]

    Brochure on data and insights from 5 years of NZCVS

19. NZCVS 5 years poster Web [PDF, 798 KB]

    Poster with insights and data on 5 years of NZCVS 

20. Highly victimised people factsheet [PDF, 231 KB]

    A small number of New Zealanders experience the majority of all crime incidents.  The most victimised New Zealanders face multiple other challenges, and the risk of being highly victimised compounds as people experience more health, housing or economic vulnerabilities.

21. Disability and victimisation factsheet [PDF, 212 KB]

    Around 32% of disabled people have experienced victimisation.  That's around 60,000 people in Aotearoa. Young disabled people face one of the highest victimisation rates of any demographic group.

22. MOJ0500_MAR23_WEB.pdf [PDF, 248 KB]

    Putting your children first

23. Factsheet: Convictions in the general population [PDF, 389 KB]

    Among New Zealanders born in 1978, 16% had a criminal conviction by age 20 and 26% by age 38. Conviction rates vary across gender and ethnic groups with men and Māori having higher rates. Those born later, particularly in the 1990s, have lower rates of conviction, in major part due to increased use of alternatives to court action as part of the Policing Excellence programme that began in 2009.

24. Factsheet: Imprisonment in the general population [PDF, 384 KB]

    Most people enter prison for the first time at a young age. Overall, 5% of people born in 1981 had been in prison by age 35. Imprisonment rates vary by gender and ethnic group and rates for Māori men are particularly high. In recent years the proportion of young people who have been in prison has trended downward for all ethnic groups.

25. Factsheet: Victims infographic 2017 [PDF, 657 KB]

    Infographic showing victimisations reported to Police (2017).