More than half of serious assaults on women occur in the home
Thu 06 Dec 2012
A New Zealand study of serious, non-fatal assaults resulting in hospitalisation between 2000–2009 reveals that more than half of all serious ...
A New Zealand study of serious, non-fatal assaults resulting in hospitalisation between 2000–2009 reveals that more than half of all serious assaults on women occurred in the home. For female victims, 56% of assaults occurred in the home, in comparison with 20% for male victims. (There was a high proportion of victims for which no information was recorded about the location of the injury event — 35.5% for men and 24.5% for women.) The study used data from the National Minimum Data Set of hospital discharges (NMDS).
Almost half (48%) of female and one third (32%) of male victims of serious non-fatal assaults were Māori. For both males and females, the rates for residential area deprivation levels groups 7, 8 and 9 were 17–26 times higher than that for the least deprived group for females and 32–39 times higher than the least deprived group for the males.
Limited information was available on the perpetrator of the assault (the perpetrator was listed in only 31% of cases) so this was not included in the study.