New Zealand's violent crime
New Zealand's definition of violent crime includes:
- Homicide (murder, attempted murder, manslaughter, infanticide, abortion, aiding
and abetting suicide)
- Robbery (including aggravated robbery, robbery, assault with intent to rob, and
compelling execution of documents by force)
- Grievous assaults (wounding with intent, injuring with intent, aggravated
wounding or injury, disabling, discharging firearm or doing dangerous act with intent,
injuring by unlawful act, acid throwing, poisoning with intent, infecting with disease,
using any firearm against a law enforcement officer, commission of a crime with a firearm,
assault with weapon)
- Serious assaults (aggravated assault, assault with intent to injure, assault on a
child or by a male on a female, assault on a member of the police, assault a person
assisting the police, assault on a person in the lawful execution of a process, common
assault under the Crimes Act)
- Minor assaults (assaults under the Summary Offences Act: assault on law
enforcement officers, assault person assisting the police, assaults official (other
statutes), common assault, miscellaneous common assault)
- Intimidation/threats (threatening to kill or do grievous bodily harm, threatening
acts, threatening to destroy property, intimidation (under the Summary Offences Act),
demanding with intent to steal, extortion by certain threats, offensive weapon possession
(under Crimes Act, Summary Offences Act, and miscellaneous acts), fail to provide
necessaries, cruelty to a child, miscellaneous intimidation/ threats (miscellaneous
acts))
- Group assemblies (rioting, riotous damage, forcible entry and detainer, unlawful
assembly, disorderly behaviour, crimes against personal privacy, Harassment Act 1997
offences, participation in criminal gang, associating with violent offenders)
New Zealand Police's definition of violent crime does not include any sexual offences.
Table 1 provides the rate of recorded crime per 100,000 population for each of the New
Zealand violent crime categories. This information was taken from the New Zealand Office
of the Police Commissioner March 2002 document "Police Statistics 2001: A summary of
recorded and resolved offences".
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