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Table 4
Characteristics of police-reported cybercrime victims, by the violation against the victim, selected police services, 2012

Table summary
This table displays the results of Table 4 Characteristics of police-reported cybercrime victims. The information is grouped by Demographics (appearing as row headers), Total violent violations, Sexual violations and Non-sexual violent violations, calculated using number and percentage units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Demographics^Note 1^,^Note 2	Total violent violations		Sexual violations^Note 3		Non-sexual violent violations^Note 4
Demographics^Note 1^,^Note 2	number	percentage	number	percentage	number	percentage
Sex
Female	1,432	69.2	394	84.2	1,038	64.8
Male	638	30.8	74	15.8	564	35.2
Total	2,070	100	468	100	1,602	100
Age
Under 12 years	82	4.0	49	10.5	33	2.1
12 to 17 years	785	37.9	401	85.7	384	24.0
18 to 24 years	355	17.1	7	1.5	348	21.7
25 to 34 years	317	15.3	7	1.5	310	19.4
35 to 44 years	275	13.3	4	0.9	271	16.9
45 to 54 years	167	8.1	0	0.0	167	10.4
55 years and over	89	4.3	0	0.0	89	5.6
Total	2,070	100	468	100	1,602	100
Note 1. Counts are based upon the violation against the victim, which is not necessarily the cyber-related violation in the incident. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2. Victim records with unknown age or sex are excluded. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3. Sexual violations include sexual assaults, sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching, luring a child via a computer, and other sexual violations against the person. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4. Non-sexual violent violations include assaults, extortion, criminal harassment, threatening or harassing phone calls, uttering threats, and other non-sexual violent violations. Return to note 4 referrer Note: This table reflects data reported by police services covering 80% of the population of Canada. Data from Saint John, Québec City, Toronto, Calgary, and the Ontario Provincial Police were not available and thus were not included in the present analysis. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.

Date modified:: 2015-11-30