Skip to main content
Skip to "About this site"

Table 2.3
Victims of police-reported family violence, by sex of victim and type of offence, Canada, 2014 Table 2.3
Victims of police-reported family violence, by sex of victim and type of offence, Canada, 2014

Table 2.3
Victims of police-reported family violence, by sex of victim and type of offence, Canada, 2014
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
Type of offence	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent
Violations causing death^Note 1	93	0.2	49	0.2	142	0.2
Attempted murder^Note 2	78	0.1	50	0.2	128	0.1
Sexual offences^Note 3	5,776	10	1,154	4	6,930	8
Physical assault	40,622	70	21,436	78	62,058	73
Major assault (levels 2 and 3)^Note 4	6,613	11	5,344	19	11,957	14
Common assault (level 1)^Note 5	33,784	58	15,956	58	49,740	58
Other assaults^Note 6	225	0.4	136	0.5	361	0.4
Criminal harassment	2,654	5	578	2	3,232	4
Indecent or harassing phone calls	628	1	253	0.9	881	1
Uttering threats	6,331	11	3,466	13	9,797	11
Robbery	124	0.2	73	0.3	197	0.2
Other violent offences^Note 7	1,529	3	508	2	2,037	2
Total	57,835	100	27,567	100	85,402	100
Note 1. Violations causing death include first degree murder, second degree murder, manslaughter, infanticide, criminal negligence, and other related violations causing death. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2. Attempted murder includes conspire to commit murder. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3. 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. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4. 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. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5. Level 1 assault is the least serious form of assault and includes pushing, slapping, punching and face-to-face verbal threats. Return to note 5 referrer Note 6. 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. Return to note 6 referrer Note 7. Includes criminal negligence causing bodily harm, trap likely to cause or causing bodily 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. Return to note 7 referrer Note: Excludes incidents where the sex or age of the 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.

Date modified:: 2016-01-21