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Table 5.3
Senior victims of police-reported family violence, by sex of victim and type of violation, Canada, 2016

Table 5.3
Senior victims of police-reported family violence, by sex of victim and type of violation, Canada, 2016
Table summary
This table displays the results of Senior victims 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 percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of violation	Female victims		Male victims		Total victims
Type of violation	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent
Violations causing death^{Table 5.3 Note 1}	17	1	9	1	26	1
Attempted murder^{Table 5.3 Note 2}	4	0.2	8	1	12	0.3
Sexual assault (levels 1, 2 and 3)^{Table 5.3 Note 3}	20	1	2	0.1	22	1
Physical assault	1,386	68	1,044	71	2,430	69
Major assault (levels 2 and 3)^{Table 5.3 Note 4}	241	12	275	19	516	15
Common assault (level 1)^{Table 5.3 Note 5}	1,137	56	765	52	1,902	54
Other assaults^{Table 5.3 Note 6}	8	0.4	4	0.3	12	0.3
Robbery	13	1	9	1	22	1
Extortion	27	1	22	1	49	1
Criminal harassment	95	5	47	3	142	4
Uttering threats	363	18	287	19	650	19
Indecent or harassing communications	53	3	25	2	78	2
Other violent violations^{Table 5.3 Note 7}	58	3	22	1	80	2
Total	2,036	100	1,475	100	3,511	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 or imitation firearm in the commission of an offence and other assaults. Return to note 6 referrer Note 7 Other violent violations include forcible confinement, intimidation of a non-justice system participant, arson (disregard for human life), kidnapping and other violations against the person. Sexual offences—excluding sexual assault levels 1, 2 and 3—are also included under other violent violations. Return to note 7 referrer Note: Family violence refers to violence committed by spouses (legally married, separated, divorced and common-law), children (biological, step, adopted and foster), siblings (biological, step, half, adopted and foster) and extended family members (e.g., grandchildren, nephews, nieces, cousins and in-laws). 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:: 2018-01-17