Table of contents

  • Preliminary material
    • Title and verso pages
    • Contents
    • Abbreviations
    • Symbols
    • Summary
      • Type of violence
      • Perpetrator coding
      • Interpersonal violence against women
  • Body section
    • 1 Introduction
      • Definition of violence
      • Introduction of perpetrator codes
      • Methodology
    • 2 Interpersonal violence statistics in Australia
      • Victims of crime surveys
      • Personal safety survey
      • Summary
    • 3 Hospitalisations due to interpersonal violence
      • Overview
      • Age and sex distribution
      • Type of hospitalised interpersonal violence
      • Remoteness of usual residence
      • Nature of injury
      • Length of stay
      • Died in hospital
      • Place of occurrence
      • Perpetrator
      • Summary
    • 4 Interpersonal violence against women
      • Introduction
      • Overview
      • Assault by sharp object
      • Assault by blunt object
      • Assault by bodily force
      • Sexual assault by bodily force
      • Other maltreatment syndromes
      • Summary
    • 5 Interpersonal violence against older people
      • Introduction
      • Overview
      • Type of interpersonal violence
      • Nature of injury
      • Perpetrator
      • Place of occurrence
      • Summary
  • End matter
    • Appendix A: Data issues
    • References
    • List of tables
    • List of figures