Table 1A
Victims of police-reported violent crime, by offence and most serious weapon present, Canada, 2012

Table 1A
Victims of police-reported violent crime, by offence and most serious weapon present, Canada, 2012
Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of police-reported violent crime. The information is grouped by Offence (appearing as row headers), Firearm, Other weapon, No weapon, Unknown and Total, calculated using number, percent and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Offence Firearm Other weaponNote 1 No weaponNote 2 Unknown Total
number percent rateNote 3 number percent number percent number percent number percent
Total violent Criminal Code offences 5,575 2.0 20.9 47,589 16.9 228,140 81.1 7,627 ... 288,931 100
HomicideNote 4 137 33.9 0.5 197 48.8 70 17.3 29 ... 433 100
Other violations causing deathNote 5 4 5.6 0.0 45 63.4 22 31.0 2 ... 73 100
Attempted murder 190 41.9 0.7 221 48.8 42 9.3 4 ... 457 100
Sexual assault, level 3, aggravated 0 0.0 0.0 17 17.9 78 82.1 0 ... 95 100
Sexual assault, level 2, weapon or bodily harm 20 6.8 0.1 167 57.0 106 36.2 9 ... 302 100
Sexual assault, level 1 24 0.2 0.1 491 3.1 15,341 96.8 1,392 ... 17,248 100
Sexual violations against childrenNote 6, Note 7 3 0.1 0.0 68 2.5 2,656 97.4 245 ... 2,972 100
Assault, level 3, aggravated 111 3.7 0.4 1,781 59.7 1,092 36.6 111 ... 3,095 100
Assault, level 2, weapon or bodily harm 1,158 3.1 4.3 27,340 72.8 9,076 24.2 918 ... 38,492 100
Assault, level 1 236 0.2 0.9 6,230 4.7 126,959 95.2 2,917 ... 136,342 100
Assaults against a peace officer 43 0.6 0.2 1,217 16.5 6,114 82.9 57 ... 7,431 100
Other assaults 11 0.5 0.0 445 19.3 1,850 80.2 72 ... 2,378 100
Firearms; use of, discharge, pointingNote 8 677 98.4 2.5 4 0.6 7 1.0 78 ... 766 100
Robbery 2,368 12.4 8.9 6,374 33.3 10,394 54.3 564 ... 19,700 100
Forcible confinement or kidnapping 79 3.5 0.3 309 13.8 1,853 82.7 80 ... 2,321 100
Abduction 0 0.0 0.0 8 3.2 243 96.8 18 ... 269 100
Extortion 11 2.2 0.0 21 4.2 474 93.7 10 ... 516 100
Criminal harassment 19 0.2 0.1 496 4.6 10,351 95.3 292 ... 11,158 100
Uttering threats 466 1.3 1.7 1,916 5.3 33,436 93.3 655 ... 36,473 100
Indecent or harassing phone calls 0 0.0 0.0 2 0.0 7,489 100.0 124 ... 7,615 100
Other violent violations 18 2.4 0.1 240 32.2 487 65.4 50 ... 795 100
... not applicable
Note 1.

Includes all weapons other than firearms, such as knives, clubs or blunt instruments, poison, motor vehicles, ligature, or fire.

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Note 2.

Includes physical force and threats.

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Note 3.

Rates are calculated per 100,000 population using revised July 1st population estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division.

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Note 4.

The number for homicides in this table will not match numbers published in other Juristats or in Tables 3 and 7 of this report, as data from Quebec is excluded (see notes at the end of this table). Specific analysis of homicide is based on data from the Homicide Survey, which represents 100% of the population of Canada.

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Note 5.

Includes, for example, criminal negligence causing death.

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Note 6.

In August 2012, legislation came into effect making it an offence to make sexually explicit material available to a child for the purpose of facilitating sexual offences against children/youth. The UCR Survey introduced a new violation code to collect this information.

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Note 7.

Includes, for example, sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching, sexual exploitation, luring a child via a computer, and (as of 2012) making sexually explicit material available to a child for the purpose of facilitating sexual offences against children/youth.

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Note 8.

Includes a small number of incidents where there was a more serious offence committed against another victim in conjunction with a firearms violation. In these cases, the most serious offence in the incident was not related to the presence of the firearm.

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Note: Percentages are calculated excluding unknowns. Offence represents only the most serious offence in an incident. Data excludes Quebec due to a high proportion of incidents where the most serious weapon present was unknown.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR2) Survey.
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