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Family violence cases continue to rise

Brodie CowburnBy Brodie Cowburn29 March 2021Updated:18 July 2024No Comments2 Mins Read
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THE number of reported family violence incidents in Frankston increased by 10 per cent last year.

There were 2724 reported occurrences of family violence in the Frankston municipality last year, according to the latest figures released by the Crime Statistics Agency. In 2019 there were 2477.

Last year was the third consecutive year in which there had been a rise in local family violence incidents.

The number of reported family violence incidents in Frankston remains well above the statewide average. In 2020, the family incident rate per 100,000 people in the Frankston local government area was 1895. The statewide average rate of reported cases was 1380. 

The rates of family violence in the Frankston LGA are higher than those in the neighbouring Casey, Kingston, Greater Dandenong, and Mornington Peninsula areas.

Women are the reported victims of family violence around three times more than men are. Women were listed as the affected people in Frankston family violence incidents a little more than 2000 times last year. Men were the reported victims on just under 700 occasions.

Frankston residents aged 35-44 were the worst affected by family violence. 194 children were reported as victims.

Statewide family violence incidents increased 9.4 per cent from 2019 to 2020. There were 92,521 family violence incidents recorded in Victoria last year.

The number of total offences recorded statewide by Victoria Police in 2020 rose 2.3 per cent from 2019, to a total of 548,354. The criminal offence rate in Frankston dropped slightly from 2019 to 2020.

First published in the Frankston Times – 30 March 2021

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