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Table 5.3
Senior victims of police-reported family violence, by sex of victim and type of offence, Canada, 2015 Table 5.3
Senior victims of police-reported family violence, by sex of victim and type of offence, Canada, 2015

Table 5.3
Senior victims of police-reported family violence, by sex of victim and type of offence, Canada, 2015
Table summary
This table displays the results of Senior victims of police-reported family 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
Type of offence	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent
Violations causing death^{Table 5.3 Note 1}	13	0.7	10	0.8	23	0.7
Attempted murder^{Table 5.3 Note 2}	12	0.6	9	0.7	21	0.6
Sexual assault (levels 1, 2, 3)^{Table 5.3 Note 3}	42	2	1	0.1	43	1
Physical assault	1,376	70	936	70	2,312	70
Major assault (levels 2 and 3)^{Table 5.3 Note 4}	243	12	249	19	492	15
Common assault (level 1)^{Table 5.3 Note 5}	1,116	57	678	51	1,794	55
Other assaults^{Table 5.3 Note 6}	17	0.9	9	0.7	26	0.8
Robbery	8	0.4	18	1	26	0.8
Extortion	14	0.7	6	0.5	20	0.6
Criminal harassment	94	5	35	3	129	4
Uttering threats	340	17	278	21	618	19
Indecent or harassing phone calls	33	2	13	1	46	1
Other violent offences^{Table 5.3 Note 7}	20	1	22	2	42	1
Total	1,952	100	1,328	100	3,280	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. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2. Attempted murder includes conspiracy 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. 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. Other assaults include criminal negligence causing bodily harm, pointing a firearm, unlawfully causing bodily harm, using a firearm in commission of an offence and other assaults. Return to note 6 referrer Note 7. Other violent offences include forcible confinement, intimidation of a non-justice system participant, arson—disregard for human life, kidnapping and other violations against the person. Return to note 7 referrer 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. Senior victims refer to those aged 65 to 89 years. 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.

Date modified:: 2017-02-16