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§ The majority of homicide victims were male (71% or 66 victims);

§ Just under half of all homicide victims knew the offender (46% or 43 victims), with about one in five offenders (19% or 18 victims) being identified as a family member;

§ Murder victims accounted for 41% (39 victims) of all homicide victims; and

§ The most common location in which murder occurred was a residential location (81% or 30 victims).

§ The majority of sexual assault victims were female (82% or 3,310 victims);

§ Victims aged 19 years and under accounted for 70% (2,805 victims) of all sexual assault victims;

§ The most common location in which sexual assault occurred was a residential location (68% or 2,737 victims); and

§ Nearly seven in ten victims of sexual assault (69% or 2,756 victims) knew the offender, with 31% of offenders (1,235 victims) being a family member.

There was a 109% increase in the number of blackmail/extortion victims in Queensland, from 46 in 2012 to a four year high of 96 in 2013. Males accounted for three in five person victims of blackmail/extortion (60% or 50 victims).

The number of robbery victims in Queensland decreased by 11% from 2,004 in 2012 to 1,788 in 2013. In Queensland:

§ Males accounted for the majority of person victims of robbery (72% or 860 victims);

§ The most common location in which robbery occurred was a retail location (36% or 642 victims) followed by a street/footpath location (33% or 599 victims);

§ Of weapons used in a robbery, a knife was the most common (51% or 503 victims); and

§ The offender was identified as a stranger by four in five victims of robbery (81% or 977 victims).

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

In Queensland, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people had a higher victimisation rate than non-indigenous people for the following offences:

§ Homicide and related offences (5.0 victims per 100,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander persons compared to 1.3 victims per 100,000 non-indigenous persons); and

§ Sexual assault (214.4 victims per 100,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander persons compared to 65.3 victims per 100,000 non-indigenous persons).

In contrast, non-indigenous people had a higher victimisation rate than Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Queensland for the following offences:

§ Robbery (23.8 victims per 100,000 non-indigenous persons compared to 18.7 victims per 100,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander persons); and

§ Blackmail/extortion (1.7 victims per 100,000 non-indigenous persons compared to 0.0 victims per 100,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander persons).

In Queensland, a larger proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander victims of sexual assault identified a family member as the offender, compared to non-indigenous victims of sexual assault (38% or 161 victims compared to 29% or 850 victims). A residential location was the most common location that sexual assault occurred in for both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and non-indigenous people (67% or 286 victims and 67% or 1,957 victims respectively).