Australia's homicide rate is down over 50% from the 1990s, despite a small blip during COVID
- Written by Terry Goldsworthy, Associate Professor in Criminal Justice and Criminology, Bond University
Australia’s homicide rate has continued its overall downward trajectory in the latest crime data released last week.
In fact, in 2020-21, Australia recorded the second-lowest number of homicides since the Australian Institute of Criminology began compiling national statistics in 1989.
How does Australia compare with other nations? And do our...
