Each year Estonian Ministry of Justice publishes criminal statistics overview and recently new data about homicide, domestic homicide and intimate partner homicide was added.
In 2020, the long-lasting downward trend in homicide began to raise. 50 homicide (including attempted) were recorded, 16 more than a year earlier; 40 people died in these crimes. Over the years, the majority of killings and murders have been related to a quarrel between acquaintances in the course of alcohol consumption. In 2020, more than four-fifths of perpetrators were intoxicated. 28% of crimes were directed against a family member (domestic homicides): the killing and murder (incl attempted) of 14 family members was recorded, which was twice as many as in 2019. In 2015-2020, 63% of domestic homicides were committed by a current or former partner.
The rate of female victims is much higher in intimate partner homicide: if almost one fourth (24%) of all homicide victims were women, then in domestic violence the rate was a little bit more than half (53%) and in intimate partner homicide almost 2/3 (67%).
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