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Table 4.5
Child and youth victims (0 to 17 years) of police-reported family violence, by sex of victim and type of violation, Canada, 2016

Table 4.5
Child and youth victims (0 to 17 years) of police-reported family violence, by sex of victim and type of violation, Canada, 2016
Table summary
This table displays the results of Child and youth victims (0 to 17 years) of police-reported family violence. The information is grouped by Type of violation (appearing as row headers), Female victims, Male victims and Total victims, calculated using number and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of violation	Female victims		Male victims		Total victims
Type of violation	number	rate	number	rate	number	rate
Violations causing death^{Table 4.5 Note 1}	15	0.4	10	0.3	25	0.4
Attempted murder^{Table 4.5 Note 2}	10	0.3	12	0.3	22	0.3
Sexual offences^{Table 4.5 Note 3}	4,107	121	963	27	5,070	73
Physical assault	4,383	129	4,886	136	9,269	133
Major assault (levels 2 and 3)^{Table 4.5 Note 4}	892	26	1,048	29	1,940	28
Common assault (level 1)^{Table 4.5 Note 5}	3,454	102	3,785	106	7,239	104
Other assaults^{Table 4.5 Note 6}	37	1	53	1	90	1
Kidnapping or abduction	200	6	173	5	373	5
Other violent violations^{Table 4.5 Note 7}	804	24	685	19	1,489	21
Total	9,519	280	6,729	188	16,248	233
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 Sexual offences include sexual assault levels 1, 2 and 3 and other sexual violations, including child-specific offences, such as sexual interference and luring a child via a computer. 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, discharging a firearm with intent and other assaults. Return to note 6 referrer Note 7 Other violent violations include uttering threats to a person, criminal harassment, indecent or harassing communications and other violations against the person. Return to note 7 referrer Note: Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Populations based upon July 1st estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division. 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). Victims refer to those aged 17 years and younger. Excludes spousal victims under the age of 15 years. Excludes victims where the sex or the age was unknown or where the accused-victim relationship was unknown. Excludes a small number of victims in Quebec whose age was unknown but was miscoded as 0. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.

Date modified:: 2018-01-17