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Table A-07
Victims of police-reported intimate partner violence, by clearance status and type of intimate partner relationship, Canada, 2012

Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of police-reported intimate partner violence. The information is grouped by Type of incident clearance status (appearing as row headers), Victims of spousal violence, Victims of dating violence and Total victims of intimate partner violence, calculated using number and percentage units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of incident clearance status	Victims of spousal violence^Note 1		Victims of dating violence^Note 2		Total victims of intimate partner violence^Note 3
Type of incident clearance status	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent
Not cleared^Note 4	4,630	10	6,698	13	11,328	12
Cleared by charge	31,678	71	36,843	73	68,521	72
Cleared otherwise	8,083	18	7,265	14	15,348	16
Complainant requests charges not to be laid	3,378	8	3,758	7	7,136	7
Reasons beyond the control of police department	3,224	7	759	1	3,983	4
Departmental discretion	1,191	3	2,396	5	3,587	4
Other^Note 5	290	0.7	352	0.7	642	0.7
Total	44,391	100	50,806	100	95,197	100
Note 1. Refers to violence committed by married, separated or divorced persons and common-law partners (current and former). Includes victims aged 15 to 89. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2. Refers to violence committed by boyfriends or girlfriends (current and former) and other intimate partners. Includes victims aged 15 to 89. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3. Refers to violence committed by married, separated or divorced persons, common-law partners (current and former), dating partners (current and former) and other intimate partners. Includes victims aged 15 to 89. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4. 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. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5. '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, and incident cleared by other municipal/provincial/federal agency. Return to note 5 referrer Note: In cases of domestic violence, every Canadian jurisdiction has implemented some form of pro-charging policies. The particular parameters of these pro-charging policies can vary regionally. Excludes incidents where the age or sex of the victim was unknown and where the relationship between the victim and the accused was unknown. Victims aged 90 years and older are excluded due to possible instances of miscoding of unknown age within this age category. Percentages may not add up to 100% due to rounding. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.

Date modified:: 2015-11-30