Group
Subdivision
011 Murder
Latest release
Australian and New Zealand Standard Offence Classification (ANZSOC)
Reference period
2023
Released
30/11/2023
0110 Murder
Murder is defined as unlawfully killing another person where there is one or more of the following: intent to kill, occurring in the course of committing a crime (whether there was intent to kill or not), or intent to cause grievous bodily harm with reckless indifference to life.
Inclusions:
- Aid and abet murder
- Conspiracy to murder which results in death
- Extrajudicial murder including unlawful killing during armed conflict
- Felony or constructive murder
- Intent to kill resulting in death
- Intentionally kill a person using a car or other vehicle
- Murder by drugging or poisoning
- Terrorist attack causing human death
- Unlawfully kill a person under care
Exclusions:
- Assist suicide – coded to 0131 Manslaughter
- Breach euthanasia legislation not amounting to murder, attempted murder, or assault – coded to 1299 Public order, health, and safety offences, nec
- Cause death through recklessness – coded to 0131 Manslaughter
- Conspiracy to murder that does not result in death – coded to 0120 Attempted murder