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Recorded Crime Victims 2020 and Suspected Offenders 2019

Linkage between Recorded Victims 2019 and Suspected Offenders 2019

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Over three-quarters (76.5%) of detected sexual violence crimes in 2019 involved a male suspected offender and a female victim

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Where a victim and suspected offender are recorded for a crime (i.e. for detected incidents) it is possible to link victim and suspected offender to produce a limited profile (i.e. age and sex) of the relationship between victim and perpetrator.

In the majority of detected murders or manslaughters in 2019, the link between victim and perpetrator involved a male suspected offender and a male victim (74.2%). Almost one in five such links involved a male suspected offender and a female victim (16.1%). See Table 5.1 and Figure 5.1.

Table 5.1 Recorded crime victims (selected offence groups) linked to suspected offenders by sex, 2018 and 2019

Table 5.1 Recorded crime victims (selected offence groups) linked to suspected offenders by sex, 2018 and 2019
		Year offence was reported
		2018				2019
		Sex of victim (Number)		Sex of victim (%)		Sex of victim (Number)		Sex of victim (%)
ICCS offence group/Sex of suspected offender		Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female

01 Homicide offences		53	16	76.8	23.2	43	10	81.1	18.9
Male suspected offender		49	12	71.0	17.4	36	8	67.9	15.1
Female suspected offender		4	4	5.8	5.8	7	2	13.2	3.8

of which:
	Murder or manslaughter	26	9	74.3	25.7	25	6	80.6	19.4
	Male suspected offender	24	7	68.6	20.0	23	5	74.2	16.1
	Female suspected offender	2	2	5.7	5.7	2	1	6.5	3.2

	Dangerous driving leading to death	27	7	79.4	20.6	18	4	81.8	18.2
	Male suspected offender	25	5	73.5	14.7	13	3	59.1	13.6
	Female suspected offender	2	2	5.9	5.9	5	1	22.7	4.5

02 Sexual offences¹		123	528	18.9	81.1	113	377	23.1	76.9
Male suspected offender		120	520	18.4	79.9	112	375	22.9	76.5
Female suspected offender		3	8	0.5	1.2	1	2	0.2	0.4

03 Attempts/threats to murder, assaults, harassments and related offences		4,219	2,812	60.0	40.0	4,581	3,005	60.4	39.6
Male suspected offender		3,800	1,876	54.0	26.7	4,111	1,958	54.2	25.8
Female suspected offender		419	936	6.0	13.3	470	1,047	6.2	13.8

of which:
	Attempts/threats to murder	172	161	51.7	48.3	195	185	51.3	48.7
	Male suspected offender	167	145	50.2	43.5	187	165	49.2	43.4
	Female suspected offender	5	16	1.5	4.8	8	20	2.1	5.3

	Assault	3,994	2,536	61.2	38.8	4,332	2,691	61.7	38.3
	Male suspected offender	3,591	1,631	55.0	25.0	3,876	1,685	55.2	24.0
	Female suspected offender	403	905	6.2	13.9	456	1,006	6.5	14.3

	Harassment and related offences	53	115	31.5	68.5	54	129	29.5	70.5
	Male suspected offender	42	100	25.0	59.5	48	108	26.2	59.0
	Female suspected offender	11	15	6.5	8.9	6	21	3.3	11.5
¹ 02 Sexual offences includes rape and sexual assault only
Note 1: These statistics are categorised as Statistics Under Reservation. This categorisation indicates that the quality of these statistics does not meet the standards required of official statistics published by CSO.
Note 2: Please note data may not add to 100% due to rounding issues.

Open in Excel: Recorded Crime Victims 2020 and Suspected Offenders 2019 Table 5.1 (XLS 15KB)

	Male suspected offender and male victim	Male suspected offender and female victim	Female suspected offender and male victim	Female suspected offender and female victim
Murder or manslaughter offences	74.2	16.1	6.5	3.2
Sexual violence	22.9	76.5	0.2	0.4
Attempts/threats to murder, assaults, harassments and related offences	54.2	25.8	6.2	13.8

For detected sexual violence crimes in 2019, the link between victim and perpetrator involved a male suspected offender and a female victim in 76.5% of cases, and a male suspected offender and male victim in 22.9% of cases. See Table 5.1 and Figure 5.1.

For detected physical assault and related crimes in 2019, the link between victim and perpetrator involved a male suspected offender and a male victim in just over half (54.2%) of cases.

One fifth of detected sexual violence crimes reported in 2019 involved a victim under 18 and a suspected offender under 18

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For detected sexual violence crimes in 2019, the victim-offender link most commonly involved a suspected offender aged over 30 and a victim aged under 18, in 26.9% of cases. Both the suspected offender and the victim were aged under 18 in 19.6% of cases. See Table 5.2 and Figure 5.2.

Table 5.2 Recorded crime victims (selected offence groups) linked to suspected offenders by age when offence occurred, 2018 and 2019

Table 5.2 Recorded crime victims (selected offence groups) linked to suspected offenders by age when offence occurred, 2018 and 2019
		Year offence was reported
		2018						2019
		Age of victim (Number)			Age of victim (%)			Age of victim (Number)			Age of victim (%)
ICCS offence group/Age of suspected offender		Under 18	18-29	Over 30	Under 18	18-29	Over 30	Under 18	18-29	Over 30	Under 18	18-29	Over 30

01 Homicide offences		6	18	45	8.7	26.1	65.2	3	7	43	5.7	13.2	81.1
Suspected offender under 18		2	2	0	2.9	2.9	0.0	0	1	0	0.0	1.9	0.0
Suspected offender aged 18-29		3	10	19	4.3	14.5	27.5	1	4	12	1.9	7.5	22.6
Suspected offender aged 30 or over		1	6	26	1.4	8.7	37.7	2	2	31	3.8	3.8	58.5

of which:
	Murder or manslaughter	4	9	22	11.4	25.7	62.9	3	5	23	9.7	16.1	74.2
	Suspected offender under 18	2	2	0	5.7	5.7	0.0	0	1	0	0.0	3.2	0.0
	Suspected offender aged 18-29	1	4	8	2.9	11.4	22.9	1	3	7	3.2	9.7	22.6
	Suspected offender aged 30 or over	1	3	14	2.9	8.6	40.0	2	1	16	6.5	3.2	51.6

	Dangerous driving leading to death	2	9	23	5.9	26.5	67.6	0	2	20	0.0	9.1	90.9
	Suspected offender under 18	0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0
	Suspected offender aged 18-29	2	6	11	5.9	17.6	32.4	0	1	5	0.0	4.5	22.7
	Suspected offender aged 30 or over	0	3	12	0.0	8.8	35.3	0	1	15	0.0	4.5	68.2

02 Sexual offences¹		412	142	97	63.3	21.8	14.9	310	115	65	63.3	23.5	13.3
Suspected offender under 18		104	9	11	16.0	1.4	1.7	96	1	5	19.6	0.2	1.0
Suspected offender aged 18-29		123	58	20	18.9	8.9	3.1	82	43	10	16.7	8.8	2.0
Suspected offender aged 30 or over		185	75	66	28.4	11.5	10.1	132	71	50	26.9	14.5	10.2

03 Attempts/threats to murder, assaults, harassments and related offences		960	2,164	3,907	13.7	30.8	55.6	1,041	2,300	4,245	13.7	30.3	56.0
Suspected offender under 18		535	254	334	7.6	3.6	4.8	628	219	340	8.3	2.9	4.5
Suspected offender aged 18-29		161	1,136	1,138	2.3	16.2	16.2	139	1,316	1,270	1.8	17.3	16.7
Suspected offender aged 30 or over		264	774	2,435	3.8	11.0	34.6	274	765	2,635	3.6	10.1	34.7

of which:
	Attempts/threats to murder	10	83	240	3.0	24.9	72.1	18	97	265	4.7	25.5	69.7
	Suspected offender under 18	4	4	10	1.2	1.2	3.0	6	3	13	1.6	0.8	3.4
	Suspected offender aged 18-29	2	41	71	0.6	12.3	21.3	4	54	74	1.1	14.2	19.5
	Suspected offender aged 30 or over	4	38	159	1.2	11.4	47.7	8	40	178	2.1	10.5	46.8

	Assault	937	2,043	3,550	14.3	31.3	54.4	991	2,161	3,871	14.1	30.8	55.1
	Suspected offender under 18	525	247	312	8.0	3.8	4.8	594	212	327	8.5	3.0	4.7
	Suspected offender aged 18-29	158	1,079	1,051	2.4	16.5	16.1	133	1,240	1,176	1.9	17.7	16.7
	Suspected offender aged 30 or over	254	717	2,187	3.9	11.0	33.5	264	709	2,368	3.8	10.1	33.7

	Harassment and related offences	13	38	117	7.7	22.6	69.6	32	42	109	17.5	23.0	59.6
	Suspected offender under 18	6	3	12	3.6	1.8	7.1	28	4	0	15.3	2.2	0.0
	Suspected offender aged 18-29	1	16	16	0.6	9.5	9.5	2	22	20	1.1	12.0	10.9
	Suspected offender aged 30 or over	6	19	89	3.6	11.3	53.0	2	16	89	1.1	8.7	48.6
¹ 02 Sexual offences includes rape and sexual assault only
Note 1: These statistics are categorised as Statistics Under Reservation. This categorisation indicates that the quality of these statistics does not meet the standards required of official statistics published by CSO.
Note 2: Please note data may not add to 100% due to rounding issues.

Open in Excel: Recorded Crime Victims 2020 and Suspected Offenders 2019 Table 5.2 (XLS 17KB)

X-axis label	Suspected offender aged under 18	Suspected offender aged 18-29	Suspected offender aged 30 and over
Crime victim aged under 18	96	82	132
Crime victim aged 18-29	1	43	71
Crime victim aged 30 and over	5	10	50

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Recorded Crime Victims 2020 and Suspected Offenders 2019

Linkage between Recorded Victims 2019 and Suspected Offenders 2019

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Over three-quarters (76.5%) of detected sexual violence crimes in 2019 involved a male suspected offender and a female victim

One fifth of detected sexual violence crimes reported in 2019 involved a victim under 18 and a suspected offender under 18

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