Table 3.13
Accused of police-reported intimate partner violence, by age group of accused and type of clearance status, Canada, 2016

Table 3.13
Accused of police-reported intimate partner violence, by age group of accused and type of clearance status, Canada, 2016
Table summary
This table displays the results of Accused of police-reported intimate partner violence. The information is grouped by Type of clearance status (appearing as row headers), Age group of accused, Total accused, 15 to 17 years, 18 to 24 years, 25 to 44 years, 45 to 64 years and 65 years and older, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of clearance status Age group of accused Total accused
15 to 17 years 18 to 24 years 25 to 44 years 45 to 64 years 65 years and older
number percent number percent number percent number percent number percent number percent
Spousal violenceTable 3.13 Note 1 Table 3.13 Note 2 155 100 3,224 100 19,380 100 8,237 100 897 100 31,893 100
Cleared by charge 85 55 2,239 69 15,066 78 6,668 81 658 73 24,716 77
Cleared otherwise 70 45 985 31 4,314 22 1,569 19 239 27 7,177 23
Complainant declined that charge(s) be laid 24 15 366 11 1,541 8 587 7 66 7 2,584 36
Reasons beyond the control of department 24 15 528 16 2,135 11 686 8 78 9 3,451 48
Departmental discretion 12 8 72 2 543 3 246 3 79 9 952 13
OtherTable 3.13 Note 3 10 6 19 1 95 0.5 50 1 16 2 190 3
Dating violenceTable 3.13 Note 4 Table 3.13 Note 2 1,164 100 9,612 100 22,858 100 5,513 100 224 100 39,371 100
Cleared by charge 911 78 8,414 88 20,175 88 4,748 86 164 73 34,412 87
Cleared otherwise 253 22 1,198 12 2,683 12 765 14 60 27 4,959 13
Complainant declined that charge(s) be laid 80 7 573 6 1,336 6 386 7 29 13 2,404 48
Reasons beyond the control of department 26 2 239 2 441 2 150 3 9 4 865 17
Departmental discretion 123 11 330 3 763 3 196 4 22 10 1,434 29
OtherTable 3.13 Note 3 24 2 56 1 143 1 33 1 0 0 256 5
Total intimate partner violenceTable 3.13 Note 5 1,319 100 12,836 100 42,238 100 13,750 100 1,121 100 71,264 100
Cleared by charge 996 76 10,653 83 35,241 83 11,416 83 822 73 59,128 83
Cleared otherwise 323 24 2,183 17 6,997 17 2,334 17 299 27 12,136 17
Complainant declined that charge(s) be laid 104 8 939 7 2,877 7 973 7 95 8 4,988 41
Reasons beyond the control of department 50 4 767 6 2,576 6 836 6 87 8 4,316 36
Departmental discretion 135 10 402 3 1,306 3 442 3 101 9 2,386 20
OtherTable 3.13 Note 3 34 3 75 1 238 1 83 1 16 1 446 4
Note 1

Refers to violence committed by married, separated or divorced spouses and common-law partners (current and former). Includes accused aged 15 to 89.

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Note 2

For incidents that involve multiple victims, a single clearance status is recorded in relation to each victim in the incident. For instance, if charges are laid in relation to a violation against one of the victims, the clearance status for all victims will be ‘charged.’ Thus, under- or over-counts are possible with respect to clearance status.

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Note 3

'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, incident cleared by a lesser statute, incident cleared by other municipal/provincial/federal agency.

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Note 4

Refers to violence committed by boyfriends and girlfriends (current and former) and other intimate partners. Includes accused aged 15 to 89.

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Note 5

Refers to violence committed by married, separated or divorced spouses, common-law partners (current and former), dating partners (current and former) and other intimate partners. Includes accused aged 15 to 89.

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Note: Includes incidents with single accused-single victim. Intimate partner violence refers to violence committed by legally married, separated or divorced spouses, common-law partners (current and former), dating partners (current and former) and other intimate partners. Accused refers to those aged 15 to 89. Accused and victims aged 90 years and older are excluded from analyses due to possible instances of miscoding of unknown age within this age category. Excludes accused and victims of spousal violence under the age of 15 years. Excludes accused and 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. 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.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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