Table 4.12
Accused of police-reported family violence against children and youth (0 to 17 years), by age group of accused, sex of accused and type of clearance status, Canada, 2016

Table 4.12
Accused of police-reported family violence against children and youth (0 to 17 years), by age group of accused, sex of accused and type of clearance status, Canada, 2016
Table summary
This table displays the results of Accused of police-reported family violence against children and youth (0 to 17 years). The information is grouped by Type of clearance status (appearing as row headers), Age group of accused, 17 years and younger, 18 to 44 years, 45 to 64 years, 65 years and older, Female accused, Male accused and Total accused, calculated using percent and number units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of clearance status Age group of accused
17 years and younger 18 to 44 years 45 to 64 years 65 years and older
Female accused Male accused Total accused Female accused Male accused Total accused Female accused Male accused Total accused Female accused Male accused Total accused
percent
Cleared by charge 29 45 42 42 60 55 34 58 53 39 65 62
Cleared otherwise 71 55 58 58 40 45 66 42 47 61 35 38
Complainant declined that charge(s) be laid 18 13 14 17 14 15 28 16 18 17 9 10
Reasons beyond the control of department 3 6 5 13 13 13 12 12 12 0 14 13
Departmental discretion 34 22 23 27 11 16 25 12 14 39 8 12
OtherTable 4.12 Note 1 16 15 15 1 2 1 1 2 2 6 3 3
Total 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
number
Total 179 1,080 1,259 1,216 3,076 4,292 260 1,048 1,308 18 133 151
Note 1

'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, and incident cleared by other municipal/provincial/federal agency.

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Note: Includes incidents with a single accused and a single victim. In 2016, 74% of family violence incidents involved a single accused and a single victim, compared to 62% of non-family violence incidents. Family violence refers to violence committed by parents (biological, step, adopted and foster), siblings (biological, step, half, adopted and foster), extended family members (e.g., grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins and in-laws) and spouses (legally married, separated, divorced and common-law). Children and youth refer to those aged 17 years and younger. Excludes accused aged 90 years and older, and 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. Excludes a small number of accused and victims in Quebec whose age was unknown but was miscoded as 0. 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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