Table 3.3
Child and youth victims (0 to 17 years) of police-reported family violence, by sex of the victim and type of offence, Canada, 2013

Table summary
This table displays the results of Child and youth victims (0 to 17 years) of police-reported family violence. The information is grouped by Type of offence (appearing as row headers), Female victims, Male victims and Total, calculated using number and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence Female victims Male victims Total
number rateNote 1 number rateNote 1 number rateNote 1
Violations causing death 14 0.42 17 0.48 31 0.45
Attempted murderNote 2 14 0.42 9 0.26 23 0.33
Physical assaultNote 3 4,776 142.6 4,795 135.9 9,571 139.2
Sexual offencesNote 4 4,185 125.0 1,065 30.2 5,250 76.4
Kidnapping/abduction 173 5.2 141 4.0 314 4.6
Other violent crimesNote 5 824 24.6 729 20.7 1,553 22.6
Total 9,986 298.2 6,756 191.5 16,742 243.5
Note 1.

Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 populations. Populations based upon July 1st estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division.

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Note 2.

Attempted murder includes conspire to commit murder.

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Note 3.

Physical assaults includes all forms of assaults, including assault levels 1, 2, and 3, unlawfully causing bodily harm, criminal negligence causing bodily harm, using a firearm or imitation firearm in the commission of an offence, pointing a firearm, discharging firearm with intent, trap likely to cause bodily harm and other assaults.

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Note 4.

Sexual offences include sexual assault levels 1, 2 and 3 and other sexual violations, including child-specific offences, such as luring a child and sexual exploitation.

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Note 5.

Other violent offences include criminal harassment, uttering threats, indecent or harassing phone calls, robbery, extortion, arson - disregard for human life, intimidation of a justice system participant or journalist, intimation of a non-justice participant, explosives causing death/bodily harm, hostage taking, and other violent violations.

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Note: Family violence refers to violence committed by parents (biological, adoptive, step, foster), siblings (biological, adopted, step, half, foster), extended family and spouses. Excludes incidents where the sex and/or age of victim was unknown and where the relationship between the victim and the accused was unknown. Excludes spousal victims under the age of 15 years. Excludes a small number of victims in Quebec whose age was unknown but was miscoded as 0.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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