People charged and convicted of family violence offences December 2017 [xlsx, 693 KB]
Contents Family violence offences Family violence offending can be covered by a range of different offence types that are not easily identifiable as involving family violence, or could involve a non-family violence situation. To be able to produce statistics which are robust over time the Ministry of Justice uses three specific offence types to represent family violence. These are Breach of protection order, Common assault (domestic) and Male assaults female. As such, these statistics