Offenders of sexual assaults and related offences

4.3 People who choose to use violence are held to account through police and justice systems, with services and systems working together to actively identify and manage risk.

Increased coordination and accountability across police and justice systems for people who use violence.

Rates of offending of sexual assaults and related offences across all age categories.

A decrease in offending rates of sexual assaults and related offences may indicate that fewer people are choosing to use sexual violence. 
However, most sexual assaults and related offences are not reported to police. Changes in offender rates over time can be influenced by greater detection, or more reporting. The data from this measure should be considered alongside prevalence rates for sexual violence.

2022–23

The number of people proceeded against by police for sexual assault and related offences.

Data element: Offender—principal offence of sexual assault
Data source: ABS Recorded Crime – Offenders
Data source type: Administrative

Estimated resident population of those 10 years and over.

Data element: Person
Data source: ABS National, state and territory population
Data source type: Administrative

This measure is expressed as the number of offenders per 100,000 people aged 10 years and over based on the estimated population for the same time period.

100,000 x (Numerator/Denominator)

For each financial year, nationally, by: 

• age
• sex
• state and territory.

Sexual assault and related offences are acts, or intent of acts, of a sexual nature against another person, which are non-consensual or where consent is proscribed. This is a division of ANZSOC which includes the following subdivisions: sexual assault (031) and non-assaultive sexual offences (032).