Table A-02
Victims of police-reported family violence, by sex of victim and type of offence, Canada, 2012

Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims 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 percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence Female victims Male victims Total
number percent number percent number percent
Violations causing death and attempted murderNote 1 171 0.3 118 0.4 289 0.3
Sexual offencesNote 2 6,217 10 1,309 4 7,526 8
Physical assault 43,844 69 22,532 76 66,376 71
Major assault (levels 2 and 3)Note 3 7,086 11 5,594 19 12,680 14
Common assault (level 1)Note 4 36,500 58 16,770 57 53,270 57
Other assaultsNote 5 258 0.4 168 0.6 426 0.5
Criminal harassment 3,238 5 640 2 3,878 4
Indecent or harassing phone calls 1,074 2 402 1 1,476 2
Uttering threats 7,138 11 3,993 14 11,131 12
Robbery 156 0.2 98 0.3 254 0.3
Other violent offencesNote 6 1,559 2 423 1 1,982 2
Total 63,397 100 29,515 100 92,912 100
Note 1.

Includes conspire to commit murder.

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Note 2.

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.

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Note 3.

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.

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Note 4.

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

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Note 5.

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

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Note 6.

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

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Note: Excludes incidents where the sex 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. 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. 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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