Table 4.7
Senior victims of police-reported family violence, by sex of victim and type of clearance status, Canada, 2013

Table summary
This table displays the results of Senior victims of police-reported family violence. The information is grouped by Type of clearance status (appearing as row headers), Female victims, Male victims and Total, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of clearance status Female victims Male victims Total
number percent number percent number percent
Not clearedNote 1 275 16 166 14 441 15
Cleared by charge 990 57 593 51 1,583 55
Cleared otherwise 473 27 405 35 878 30
Complainant requests charges not be laid 274 16 254 22 528 18
Reasons beyond the control of department 55 3 34 3 89 3
Departmental discretion 117 7 98 8 215 7
OtherNote 2 27 2 19 2 46 2
Total 1,738 100 1,164 100 2,902 100
Note 1.

'Not cleared' refers to incidents where an accused person has not been identified in connection with the incident or incidents where there is insufficient evidence to lay a charge in connection with the incident.

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Note 2.

'Cleared by other means' includes suicide of accused, death of accused, death of witness/complainant, accused is less than 12 years of age, committal of accused to mental hospital, accused in foreign country, accused involved in other incidents, accused already sentenced, diversionary programs, incidents cleared by a lesser statute, incident cleared by other municipal/provincial/federal agency.

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Note: Senior victims refer to those aged 65 to 89 years. Family violence refers to violence committed by spouses (legally married, separated, divorced and common-law partners), parents (biological, adopted, step, foster), children (biological, adopted, step, foster), siblings (biological, adopted, step, half, foster), and extended family. Excludes incidents where the sex and/or age of victim was unknown and where the relationship between the victim and the accused was unknown. Victims aged 90 years and older are excluded from analyses due to instances of miscoding of unknown age within this age category.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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