Table 1.5
Victims of police-reported violent crime by family members, by type of offence and sex of victim, Canada, 2011

Table 1.5 Victims of police-reported violent crime by family members, by type of offence and sex of victim, Canada, 2011
Table summary
This table displays the results of table 1.5 victims of police-reported violent crime by family members. The information is grouped by type of offence (appearing as row headers), female victims, male victims and victims of family violence, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence Female victims Male victims Victims of family violence
number percent number percent number percent
Homicide/attempts 164 0.3 123 0.4 287 0.3
Sexual offencesNote 1 6,240 10 1,183 4 7,423 8
Physical assault 45,419 69 22,372 76 67,791 71
Major assault (levels 2 and 3)Note 2
 7,185 11 5,610 19 12,795 13
Common assault (level 1)Note 3
 37,621 57 16,454 56 54,075 57
Other assaultsNote 4
 613 1 308 1 921 1
Criminal harassment 3,342 5 674 2 4,016 4
Indecent/harassing phone calls 1,415 2 532 2 1,947 2
Uttering threats 7,197 11 3,910 13 11,107 12
Robbery 141 0 86 0 227 0
Other violent offencesNote 5 1,669 3 372 1 2,041 2
Total 65,587 100 29,252 100 94,839 100
Note 1.

Includes sexual assault, classified as one of three levels according to the seriousness of the incidents. Level 1 sexual assault is the category of least physical injury to the victim; level 2 includes sexual assault with a weapon, threats to use a weapon, or causing bodily harm; and level 3 includes aggravated sexual assault which wounds, maims, disfigures, or endangers the life of the victim. Also includes other sexual crimes such as sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching, sexual exploitation, incest, corrupting children, luring a child via a computer, and voyeurism.

Note 2.

Level 2 assault is defined as assault with a weapon or causing bodily harm and level 3 assault is defined as assault that wounds, maims, disfigures or endangers the life of the victim.

Note 3.

Level 1 assault is the least serious form of assault and includes pushing, slapping, punching and face-to-face verbal threats.

Note 4.

Includes unlawfully causing bodily harm, discharge firearm with intent, using firearm/imitation in commission of offence, pointing a firearm, assault against peace-public officer, and other assaults.

Note 5.

Includes criminal negligence causing bodily harm, trap likely to or causing harm, kidnapping, forcible confinement, hostage-taking, trafficking in persons, abduction, extortion, intimidation of a non-justice participant, explosives causing death/bodily harm, arson and other violent violations.

Note: Excludes incidents where the sex and/or age of victim was unknown. Victims aged 90 years and older are excluded from analyses due to instances of miscoding of unknown age within this age category. Percentages may not total 100% due to rounding.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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