{"content":[{"text":"Reference period \n The data extracted from the VHR includes all homicides reported to the Coroners Court of Victoria between 1 \n July 2015 and 30 June 2020. This reference period is based on the date the homicide incident occurred. \n This data includes cases where the coronial investigation has not yet been closed, where only the core \n dataset is available. As such, the data in this report is restricted to the core dataset of the VHR and does not \n include the extended dataset. \n Live data \n The VHR is a live database based on open and closed criminal and coronial investigations and is subject to \n re-classification and updating as further information becomes available. \n Terminology and abbreviations \n Family violence related: the homicide occurred in circumstances where there was a familial relationship \n between the homicide offender and the homicide victim, as defined by the Family Violence Protection Act \n 2008 (Vic), whether or not there was an identified history of family violence prior to the homicide. This may \n include current or former intimate partners or kinship relationships as defined by the Victorian Indigenous \n Family Violence Taskforce (2003).","bbox":{"left":0.120984,"top":0.085467,"width":0.751092,"height":0.33020399999999994}},{"text":"Homicide incident: an incident of violence from which single or multiple deaths may have resulted. The date \n of the homicide incident may be different to the date of a death in circumstances where injuries were inflicted \n upon a person during a homicide incident, but the death occurred as a result of those injuries at a later date.","bbox":{"left":0.120984,"top":0.426456,"width":0.756272,"height":0.05449499999999996}},{"text":"Homicide offender: unique people who have been suspected of or charged with causing or contributing to \n the death of another person during a homicide incident. This includes individuals who were charged but \n where the criminal outcome may not yet be known, where there has been a finding of guilt of murder or a \n lesser charge, where the individual has been found not-guilty by reason of mental impairment or where the \n individual has been acquitted due to findings of self-defence. This also includes individuals who have not \n been charged due to self-defence or mental impairment and may include a person who has died or suicided \n after the homicide incident.","bbox":{"left":0.120984,"top":0.491735,"width":0.7403310000000001,"height":0.1289200000000001}},{"text":"Homicide victim: a person who died as the result of a homicide incident.","bbox":{"left":0.120984,"top":0.63144,"width":0.5030180000000001,"height":0.01729400000000003}},{"text":"Mechanism of death: the primary means by which the death was caused.","bbox":{"left":0.120984,"top":0.659518,"width":0.510031,"height":0.01729400000000003}},{"text":"Blunt object – an object was used to inflict the fatal injury by striking and transfer of force.","bbox":{"left":0.120984,"top":0.687597,"width":0.622086,"height":0.01729400000000003}},{"text":"Bodily force – the fatal injury was inflicted without the use of a weapon, such as via an assault using hands \n and/or feet. This includes strangulation inflicted using the body (e.g. hands).","bbox":{"left":0.120984,"top":0.715676,"width":0.736898,"height":0.03600100000000006}},{"text":"Firearm – the fatal injury was inflicted through the discharge of a firearm. This does not include the firing of \n arrows, which are classified under ‘sharp object’.","bbox":{"left":0.120984,"top":0.762462,"width":0.741677,"height":0.03582300000000005}},{"text":"Sharp Object – the fatal injury was inflicted using a sharp object which caused a penetrating or cutting injury. \n This could include a range of implements such as knives, bottles, razors or the pointed tip of an umbrella.","bbox":{"left":0.120984,"top":0.809069,"width":0.751642,"height":0.03596599999999994}},{"text":"Threat to breathing – the death was caused by a deliberate restriction to breathing using an object or \n implement. The cause of the restriction may be from a range of methods including ligature strangulation,","bbox":{"left":0.120984,"top":0.85582,"width":0.7241850000000001,"height":0.035818000000000016}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}