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Weapons Used in Violent Incidents

Percentages of use of weapons in violent incidents in 2006/07

	All violence	Domestic	Mugging	Stranger	Acquaintance	Wounding	Robbery	Assault with minor injury	Assault with no injury
Weapons used	24	13	29	25	26	22	35	10	31
No weapon used	74	87	67	72	74	76	63	89	68
Not known (not able to say anything about offender/no contract)	1	0	3	3	0	2	2	1	1
Knife	7	5	16	5	7	7	20	2	7
Hitting implement¹	6	2	4	5	10	6	4	3	8
Glass/bottle	5	2	2	7	4	5	3	3	6
Stabbing implement	1	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	1
Firearm	1	0	1	2	1	0	1	0	2
Stones	2	0	0	2	2	1	1	1	3
Syringe	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other	4	5	3	5	3	4	3	2	5

1. Includes sticks, clubs, and other hitting implements.

Source: UK Statistics Authority, Web: www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk

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