Table 3.3
Victims of police-reported intimate partner violence, by sex of victim and type of offence, Canada, 2015

Table 3.3
Victims of police-reported intimate partner violence, by sex of victim and type of offence, Canada, 2015
Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of police-reported intimate partner violence. The information is grouped by Type of offence (appearing as row headers), Female victims, Male victims and Total victims, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence Female victims Male victims Total victims
number percent number percent number percent
Violations causing deathTable 3.3 Note 1 70 0.1 14 0.1 84 0.1
Attempted murderTable 3.3 Note 2 74 0.1 34 0.2 108 0.1
Sexual offences 2,976 4 96 0.5 3,072 3
Sexual assault (levels 1, 2 and 3)Table 3.3 Note 3 2,699 4 72 0.4 2,771 3
Other sexual offencesTable 3.3 Note 4 277 0.4 24 0.1 301 0.3
Physical assault 54,072 75 16,778 86 70,850 77
Major assault (levels 2 and 3)Table 3.3 Note 5 8,880 12 3,970 20 12,850 14
Common assault (level 1)Table 3.3 Note 6 44,874 62 12,761 66 57,635 63
Other assaultsTable 3.3 Note 7 318 0.4 47 0.2 365 0.4
Criminal harassment 5,204 7 767 4 5,971 7
Indecent or harassing phone calls 1,232 2 350 2 1,582 2
Uttering threats 5,795 8 1,148 6 6,943 8
Robbery 286 0.4 63 0.3 349 0.4
Other violent offencesTable 3.3 Note 8 2,694 4 190 1 2,884 3
Total 72,403 100 19,440 100 91,843 100
Note 1.

Violations causing death include first degree murder, second degree murder, manslaughter, infanticide, criminal negligence causing death, and other related violations causing death.

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Note 2.

Attempted murder includes conspiracy to commit murder.

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Note 3.

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.

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Note 4.

Other sexual offences include other sexual crimes such as non-consensual distribution of intimate images, sexual interference, sexual exploitation, luring a child via a computer, and voyeurism.

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Note 5.

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 6.

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 7.

Other assaults include unlawfully causing bodily harm, pointing, using or discharging a firearm with intent, assault against a public or peace officer, trap likely causing bodily harm and other assaults.

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Note 8.

Other violent offences include forcible confinement, kidnapping, extortion, and other violent offences.

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Note: Intimate partner violence refers to violence committed by legally married, separated or divorced persons, common-law partners (current and former), dating partners (current and former), and other intimate partners. Victims refer to those aged 15 to 89. Victims aged 90 years and older are excluded from analyses due to possible instances of miscoding of unknown age within this age category. Excludes victims where the sex or the age was unknown or 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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