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Table 5.11
Accused of police-reported violence against seniors, by sex of accused and relationship of accused to victim, Canada, 2016

Table 5.11
Accused of police-reported violence against seniors, by sex of accused and relationship of accused to victim, Canada, 2016
Table summary
This table displays the results of Accused of police-reported violence against seniors. The information is grouped by Relationship of accused to victim (appearing as row headers), Female accused, Male accused and Total accused, calculated using number, percent and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Relationship of accused to victim	Female accused			Male accused			Total accused
Relationship of accused to victim	number	percent	rate	number	percent	rate	number	percent	rate
Family	595	42	3	1,646	39	9	2,241	40	6
Child^{Table 5.11 Note 1}	157	11	1	507	12	3	664	12	2
Spouse^{Table 5.11 Note 2}	224	16	1	540	13	3	764	14	2
Sibling^{Table 5.11 Note 3}	63	4	0.3	173	4	1	236	4	1
Other family^{Table 5.11 Note 4}	151	11	1	426	10	2	577	10	2
Non-family	813	58	5	2,545	61	14	3,358	60	9
Casual acquaintance^{Table 5.11 Note 5}	301	21	2	891	21	5	1,192	21	3
Neighbour	131	9	1	433	10	2	564	10	2
Business relationship	46	3	0.3	182	4	1	228	4	1
Dating partner^{Table 5.11 Note 6}	85	6	0.5	151	4	1	236	4	1
Friend^{Table 5.11 Note 7}	91	6	0.5	191	5	1	282	5	1
Stranger	159	11	1	697	17	4	856	15	2
Unknown	0	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	0	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	0	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable
Total	1,408	100	8	4,191	100	23	5,599	100	16
... not applicable Note 1 Includes biological, step, adoptive and foster children. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Includes current and former legally married and common-law spouses. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Includes biological, step, half, adoptive and foster brothers and sisters. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 Includes all other family members related by blood, marriage (including common-law) or adoption. Examples include grandchildren, nephews, nieces, cousins and in-laws. Also includes a small proportion of family violence accused where the relationship of accused to victim was miscoded. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 Includes criminal relationships, authority figures and reverse authority figures. Return to note 5 referrer Note 6 Includes current and former girlfriends/boyfriends and other intimate partners. Return to note 6 referrer Note 7 Includes roommates, which was added as a relationship category beginning in 2013. Return to note 7 referrer 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. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Populations based upon July 1st estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division. Seniors refer to those aged 65 to 89 years. 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 where the sex or the age was unknown. Percentages have been calculated excluding accused 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:: 2018-01-17