Justice research

Research produced or commissioned by the Ministry of Justice using New Zealand Crime and Victims Survey (NZCVS) data is published here. Click here for more about the NZCVS, and here for other justice data products.

Disability and victimisation

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.

Disability and victimisation factsheet [PDF, 212 KB]

Highly victimised people

The majority of all crime incidents are experienced by a group of 137,000 New Zealanders. 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.

Highly victimised people factsheet [PDF, 231 KB]

If you’re a researcher interested in reading the methodological report behind these two factsheets, or you are interested in doing analysis with justice data in the IDI, please get in touch at research@justice.govt.nz.