Table 2.1
Victims of police-reported violent crime, by sex of victim and relationship of accused to victim, Canada, 2015

Table 2.1
Victims of police-reported violent crime, by sex of victim and relationship of accused to victim, Canada, 2015
Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of police-reported violent crime. The information is grouped by Relationship of accused to victim (appearing as row headers), Female victims, Male victims and Total victims, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Relationship of accused to victim Female victims Male victims Total victims
number percent number percent number percent
Total victims of family violence 57,952 33 28,154 18 86,106 26
Total spouses 31,931 18 8,573 5 40,504 12
Current spouseTable 2.1 Note 1 23,312 13 6,257 4 29,569 9
Ex-spouseTable 2.1 Note 2 8,619 5 2,316 1 10,935 3
Other immediate or extended family members 26,021 15 19,581 12 45,602 14
ParentTable 2.1 Note 3 8,449 5 6,528 4 14,977 5
ChildTable 2.1 Note 4 5,422 3 3,395 2 8,817 3
SiblingTable 2.1 Note 5 5,418 3 4,221 3 9,639 3
Extended family memberTable 2.1 Note 6 6,732 4 5,437 3 12,169 4
Total victims of non-family violence 115,366 67 130,992 82 246,358 74
Dating partnersTable 2.1 Note 7 41,080 24 10,944 7 52,024 16
Boyfriend or girlfriend 25,292 15 6,651 4 31,943 10
Ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend 14,622 8 3,665 2 18,287 6
Other intimate partner 1,166 0.7 628 0.4 1,794 0.5
Close friendTable 2.1 Note 8 7,392 4 7,976 5 15,368 5
Business relationship 4,826 3 7,006 4 11,832 4
Casual acquaintanceTable 2.1 Note 9 31,053 18 40,418 25 71,471 21
Criminal relationshipTable 2.1 Note 10 321 0.2 1,511 0.9 1,832 0.6
Authority figureTable 2.1 Note 11 4,227 2 6,054 4 10,281 3
Stranger 26,467 15 57,083 36 83,550 25
Unknown relationshipTable 2.1 Note 12 96 Note ...: not applicable 130 Note ...: not applicable 226 Note ...: not applicable
Total victims of violent crimeTable 2.1 Note 13 173,414 100 159,276 100 332,690 100
... not applicable
Note 1.

Includes legally married and common-law partners aged 15 years and older.

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Note 2.

Includes separated and divorced partners aged 15 years and older.

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Note 3.

Includes biological, adoptive, step and foster parent. Includes a small number of victims under 18 years of age where the relationship of the accused to the victim was miscoded as 'child' (including 'step-child') and was therefore recoded as 'parent' (including 'step-parent').

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Note 4.

Includes biological, adopted, step and foster child. Includes a small number of victims aged 65 years and older where the relationship of the accused to the victim was miscoded as 'parent' (including 'step-parent') and was therefore recoded as 'child' (including 'step-child').

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Note 5.

Includes biological, step, half, foster or adopted brother or sister.

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Note 6.

Includes all other family members related by blood, marriage (including common-law) or adoption. Examples include uncles, aunts, cousins and grandparents.

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Note 7.

Includes victims under 90 years of age, including dating partner victims under the age of 15. The counts for dating partner victims do not match the information presented in Section 3 of the report, which examines intimate partner violence for those aged 15 years and older.

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Note 8.

Includes roommates. 'Roommates' was added as a relationship category beginning in 2013.

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Note 9.

Includes neighbours.

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Note 10

Includes relationships with the victim based on illegal activities, such as drugs or prostitution.

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Note 11

Includes persons in a position of trust or authority who are not family members. Includes authority figures and reverse authority figures (e.g., student-to-teacher, patient-to-doctor, teen-to-youth counsellors/group home workers, prisoner-to guard). 'Reverse authority figures' was added as a relationship category beginning in 2013.

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Note 12

Includes incidents where the relationship between the victim and the accused was reported by police as 'unknown.'

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Note 13

Includes violations causing death, attempted murder, sexual assault, assault, robbery, criminal harassment, uttering threats and other violations involving violence or the threat of violence.

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Note: 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 members. Victims refer to those aged 89 years and younger. Victims aged 90 years and older are excluded from analyses due to possible instances of miscoding of unknown age within this age category. Spousal violence victims under the age of 15 years are included in the category 'unknown relationship' and not in the categories related to spousal violence. Excludes victims where the sex or the age was unknown. Excludes a small number of victims in Quebec whose age was unknown but was miscoded as 0. Percentages have been calculated excluding victims where the accused-victim relationship was unknown. 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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