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Manitoba

Victims of police-reported violent crime in Manitoba, 2016

There were 23,630 victims of violent crime and criminal traffic offences causing death or bodily harm reported by police in Manitoba in 2016. This represented 1,832 victims per 100,000 population, above the overall national rate (951) (Table A).
Most (83%) victims of police-reported crime were adults aged 18 and older; 61% were aged 25 and older. Meanwhile, 13% of victims were youth aged 12 to 17 and 4% were children under age 12. When controlling for population, the rate of victimization was highest among young adults aged 18 to 24 and youth aged 16 to 17. Children and youth (3 victims) represented 7% of all victims of homicide and other offences causing death^Note (Table 8.1).
Seven in ten (71%) of victims of police-reported crime in 2016 were victims of assault: 46% were victims of common assault (level 1) and 21% were victims of major assault (level 2 or 3).^Note Assault victims accounted for almost three in four (74%) of adult victims of police-reported violent crime. In comparison, assault accounted for more than half (56%) of child and youth victims (Table 8.1). Rates of assault were highest among young adults.
Overall, 8% of police-reported victims were victims of sexual offences. However, these offences were much more prevalent among child and youth victims that came to the attention of police. Among child victims (under age 12), 17% were victims of sexual assault (almost all sexual assault level 1) and another 16% were victims of sexual violations against children.^Note For youth victims (aged 12 to 17), 15% were victims of sexual assault (almost all sexual assault level 1) and 9% were victims of sexual violations against children (Table 8.1). Among victims of all ages, rates of police-reported sexual assault were highest among youth aged 16 to 17, while sexual violations against children were highest among youth aged 12 to 15 years.
One-fifth (20%) of police-reported victims in 2016 were victims of other violent offences including uttering threats (10%) and robbery (8%) (Table 8.1).
While over half (56%) of police-reported victims were female—along with Saskatchewan, the highest percentage among the provinces— they represented a much larger proportion of victims of sexual offences (90%) and of some other violent offences such as criminal harassment (77%) and indecent and harassing communications (75%) (Table 8.2).
Assault was the most common police-reported offence among both male (72%) and female (70%) victims in 2016. Meanwhile, 13% of female victims were victims of sexual offences (10% sexual assault—mostly level 1—and 3% sexual violations against children). In comparison, 2% of males were victims of sexual offences (Table 8.2).
Male and female victims of police-reported sexual offences differed notably by age. Overall, among female victims of all sexual offences 55% were either children under the age of 12 (16%) or youth aged 12 to 17 (39%). Of all female child and youth victims, 38% were victims of sexual offences: 22% were sexual assault and 16% were sexual violations against children (Table 8.3).
Compared to females, a much larger proportion (75%) of male victims of police-reported sexual offences were either children (44%) or youth (31%). Despite this, sexual offences were still less common among young male children and youth, representing 9% of victims (compared to 38% for their female counterparts). Instead, assault was the most common (68%) offence for male child and youth victims (Table 8.3).

Victim services in Manitoba

Manitoba’s Department of Justice provides a wide range of victim services including system-based programs that primarily assist victims of the most serious crimes as outlined in The Victims' Bill of Rights of Manitoba, and victims of domestic violence, child victims and witnesses. The Department of Justice in Manitoba also administers the Victim/Witness Assistance Program which provides court-based support, the Compensation for Victims of Crime Program, and also funds specialized, non-governmental community-based programs that focus on female victims of domestic violence, sexual assault services, child and youth abuse victims, Indigenous victims, family members of victims and family members of missing and murdered Indigenous persons. Furthermore, police-based programs are provided separately by the Winnipeg Police Service, Brandon Police Service and Pembina Valley Victim Services.

The information provided below reflects data provided by Manitoba Victim Services that include victims that have a case where a charge has been laid, and in turn, are involved in the criminal justice system. It does not include information on other victims who may have received assistance from police or community-based service agencies as listed above.^Note Victims involved in multiple separate incidents may be counted more than once in the data.

In 2016, Manitoba Victim Services assisted 11,572 direct victims of crime, and 1,656 family members of victims.^Note
Children and youth accounted for 12% of direct victims assisted by the program.
Four-fifths (85%) of direct victims served were female; 15% were male.
Most direct victims who received assistance (83%) were victims of violent crime.^Note About two-thirds (68%) were victims of physical assault, and another 8% were victims of sexual assault. Almost half (46%) of sexual assault victims were under age 18 (328 victims). Another 57 individuals were victims of specific sexual violations against children.^Note Almost one-fifth (17%) of direct victims served were victims of a non-violent offence including failure to comply with conditions or breach of a protection order.
In 2016, 207 Victim Impact Statements were filed with the court in Manitoba.

Note: Percentages have been calculated excluding unknowns. Percentages may not add up to totals due to rounding. Not all percentages presented in the text are provided in the tables. No tables are provided for the Canadian Victim Services Indicators (CVSI) data.

Detailed data tables

Table 8.1
Victims of police-reported violent crime and traffic violations causing death or bodily harm, by type of offence and age group of victim, Manitoba, 2016
Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of police-reported violent crime and traffic violations causing death or bodily harm. The information is grouped by Type of offence (appearing as row headers), Age group, Total victims, Child victims
under 12 years, Youth victims, Adult victims, 12 to 15 years, 16 to 17 years, 18 to 24 years and 25 years and older, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence	Age group										Total victims^{Table 8.1 Note 1}
	Child victims under 12 years		Youth victims				Adult victims
	Child victims under 12 years		12 to 15 years		16 to 17 years		18 to 24 years		25 years and older
	number	percent^{Table 8.1 Note 1}	number	percent^{Table 8.1 Note 1}	number	percent^{Table 8.1 Note 1}	number	percent^{Table 8.1 Note 1}	number	percent^{Table 8.1 Note 1}	number	percent^{Table 8.1 Note 1}
Violent Criminal Code offences
Violations causing death and attempted murder	1	1	0	0	3	3	23	26	62	70	90	100
Homicide and other offences causing death^{Table 8.1 Note 2}	1	2	0	0	2	4	8	17	35	76	47	100
Attempted murder	0	0	0	0	1	2	15	35	27	63	43	100
Sexual offences	347	19	497	27	217	12	354	19	451	24	1,866	100
Sexual assault	179	13	247	17	186	13	354	25	451	32	1,417	100
Sexual assault (level 3)—aggravated	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	33	4	67	6	100
Sexual assault (level 2)—weapon or causing bodily harm	5	17	1	3	0	0	4	13	20	67	30	100
Sexual assault (level 1)	174	13	246	18	186	13	348	25	427	31	1,381	100
Sexual violations against children^{Table 8.1 Note 3}	168	37	250	56	31	7	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	449	100
Assaults	568	3	914	5	779	5	3,835	23	10,671	64	16,770	100
Assault (level 3)—aggravated	1	0	8	2	19	4	128	28	298	66	454	100
Assault (level 2)—weapon or causing bodily harm	142	3	236	5	190	4	1,115	25	2,843	63	4,526	100
Assault (level 1)	418	4	660	6	565	5	2,504	23	6,693	62	10,843	100
Other^{Table 8.1 Note 4}	7	1	10	1	5	1	88	9	837	88	947	100
Other violent offences	122	3	309	7	235	5	905	19	3,149	67	4,723	100
Robbery	12	1	123	7	95	5	423	23	1,226	65	1,882	100
Criminal harassment	1	1	14	14	10	10	24	24	53	52	102	100
Indecent/harassing communications	3	3	11	11	6	6	15	15	67	66	102	100
Uttering threats	84	4	150	6	94	4	366	15	1,678	71	2,372	100
Kidnapping, forcible confinement, abduction or hostage taking	13	9	5	3	11	7	45	30	77	51	151	100
Trafficking in persons and prostitution	0	0	0	0	5	36	5	36	4	29	14	100
Other^{Table 8.1 Note 5}	9	9	6	6	14	14	27	27	44	44	100	100
Criminal Code traffic violations causing death or bodily harm^{Table 8.1 Note 6}
Impaired driving and other traffic violations causing death^{Table 8.1 Note 6}	0	0	0	0	1	4	2	9	20	87	23	100
Impaired driving and other traffic violations causing bodily harm^{Table 8.1 Note 6}	4	3	5	3	12	8	41	26	96	61	158	100
Total victims	1,042	4	1,725	7	1,247	5	5,160	22	14,449	61	23,630	100
... not applicable Note 1 Total victims includes victims where the age was unknown. Percentage calculations exclude victims where the age was unknown. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Excludes Criminal Code traffic violations causing death such as impaired driving. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Sexual violations against children are a set of Criminal Code offences that specifically concern offences involving child and youth victims. These include offences such as sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching and sexual exploitation, but exclude sexual assault and other sexual offences not specific to children. See the “Definitions” section for a full list of offences in this category. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 Includes assaults against police and other peace officers, and other types of assaults such as criminal negligence causing bodily harm. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 Includes violent firearm offences, extortion and other violent violations. Return to note 5 referrer Note 6 Includes dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, failure to stop and other Criminal Code traffic violations. Return to note 6 referrer Note: Victims refer to those aged 89 years and younger. Victims aged 90 years and older are excluded from analyses due to possible instances of miscoding of unknown age within this age category. Percentages may not add up to 100 due to rounding. For police-reported incidents that involve violations against the person, a victim record is collected for each victim involved in the incident. If an individual is a victim in multiple incidents in the same reference year, that individual will be counted as one victim for each separate incident. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.

Table 8.2
Victims of police-reported violent crime and traffic violations causing death or bodily harm, by type of offence and sex of victim, Manitoba, 2016
Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of police-reported violent crime and traffic violations causing death or bodily harm. The information is grouped by Type of offence (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 offence	Female victims		Male victims		Total victims^{Table 8.2 Note 1}
Type of offence	number	percent^{Table 8.2 Note 1}	number	percent^{Table 8.2 Note 1}	number	percent^{Table 8.2 Note 1}
Violent Criminal Code offences
Violations causing death and attempted murder	27	30	63	70	90	100
Homicide and other offences causing death^{Table 8.2 Note 2}	12	26	35	74	47	100
Attempted murder	15	35	28	65	43	100
Sexual offences	1,677	90	185	10	1,866	100
Sexual assault	1,278	90	136	10	1,417	100
Sexual assault (level 3)—aggravated	4	67	2	33	6	100
Sexual assault (level 2)—weapon or causing bodily harm	26	87	4	13	30	100
Sexual assault (level 1)	1,248	91	130	9	1,381	100
Sexual violations against children^{Table 8.2 Note 3}	399	89	49	11	449	100
Assaults	9,175	55	7,490	45	16,770	100
Assault (level 3)—aggravated	159	35	294	65	454	100
Assault (level 2)—weapon or causing bodily harm	2,027	45	2,492	55	4,526	100
Assault (level 1)	6,819	63	3,986	37	10,843	100
Other^{Table 8.2 Note 4}	170	19	718	81	947	100
Other violent offences	2,184	46	2,519	54	4,723	100
Robbery	732	39	1,149	61	1,882	100
Criminal harassment	79	77	23	23	102	100
Indecent/harassing communications	76	75	26	25	102	100
Uttering threats	1,093	46	1,260	54	2,372	100
Kidnapping, forcible confinement, abduction or hostage taking	131	87	20	13	151	100
Trafficking in persons and prostitution	14	100	0	0	14	100
Other^{Table 8.2 Note 5}	59	59	41	41	100	100
Criminal Code traffic violations causing death or bodily harm^{Table 8.2 Note 6}
Impaired driving and other traffic violations causing death^{Table 8.2 Note 6}	5	22	18	78	23	100
Impaired driving and other traffic violations causing bodily harm^{Table 8.2 Note 6}	71	46	85	54	158	100
Total victims	13,139	56	10,360	44	23,630	100
Note 1 Total victims includes victims where the sex was unknown. Percentage calculations exclude victims where the sex was unknown. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Excludes Criminal Code traffic violations causing death such as impaired driving. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Sexual violations against children are a set of Criminal Code offences that specifically concern offences involving child and youth victims. These include offences such as sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching and sexual exploitation, but exclude sexual assault and other sexual offences not specific to children. See the “Definitions” section for a full list of offences in this category. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 Includes assaults against police and other peace officers, as well as other types of assaults such as criminal negligence causing bodily harm. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 Includes violent firearm offences, extortion and other violent violations. Return to note 5 referrer Note 6 Includes dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, failure to stop and other Criminal Code traffic violations. Return to note 6 referrer Note: Victims refer to those aged 89 years and younger. Victims aged 90 years and older are excluded from analyses due to possible instances of miscoding of unknown age within this age category. Percentages may not add up to 100 due to rounding. For police-reported incidents that involve violations against the person, a victim record is collected for each victim involved in the incident. If an individual is a victim in multiple incidents in the same reference year, that individual will be counted as one victim for each separate incident. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.

Table 8.3
Victims of police-reported violent crime and traffic violations causing death or bodily harm, by type of offence and sex and age group of victim, Manitoba, 2016
Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of police-reported violent crime and traffic violations causing death or bodily harm. The information is grouped by Type of offence (appearing as row headers), Age group, Total victims, Child victims
under 12 years, Youth victims
12 to 17 years and Adult victims
18 years and older, calculated using Number, rate and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence	Age group									Total victims^{Table 8.3 Note 1}
	Child victims under 12 years			Youth victims 12 to 17 years			Adult victims 18 years and older			Total victims^{Table 8.3 Note 1}
	number	rate	percent^{Table 8.3 Note 1}	number	rate	percent^{Table 8.3 Note 1}	number	rate	percent^{Table 8.3 Note 1}	number	rate	percent^{Table 8.3 Note 1}
Female victims
Violations causing death and attempted murder^{Table 8.3 Note 2}	1	1	4	0	0	0	25	5	96	27	4	100
Sexual offences	266	279	16	655	1,410	39	756	152	45	1,677	259	100
Sexual assault (level 1, 2 and 3)	126	132	10	396	852	31	756	152	59	1,278	197	100
Sexual violations against children^{Table 8.3 Note 3}	140	147	35	259	557	65	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	399	62	100
Assaults^{Table 8.3 Note 4}	244	256	3	928	1,997	10	8,002	1,607	87	9,175	1,416	100
Other violent offences^{Table 8.3 Note 5}	60	63	3	256	551	12	1,867	375	86	2,184	337	100
Criminal Code traffic violations causing death or bodily harm^{Table 8.3 Note 6}	2	2	3	11	24	14	63	13	83	76	12	100
Total female victims	573	602	4	1,850	3,981	14	10,713	2,151	82	13,139	2,028	100
Male victims
Violations causing death and attempted murder^{Table 8.3 Note 2}	0	0	0	3	6	5	60	12	95	63	10	100
Sexual offences	81	82	44	58	117	31	46	9	25	185	29	100
Sexual assault (level 1, 2 and 3)	53	53	39	37	75	27	46	9	34	136	21	100
Sexual violations against children^{Table 8.3 Note 3}	28	28	57	21	42	43	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	49	8	100
Assaults^{Table 8.3 Note 4}	311	314	4	759	1,535	10	6,418	1,309	86	7,490	1,166	100
Other violent offences^{Table 8.3 Note 5}	62	63	2	288	582	11	2,167	442	86	2,519	392	100
Criminal Code traffic violations causing death or bodily harm^{Table 8.3 Note 6}	2	2	2	7	14	7	94	19	91	103	16	100
Total male victims	456	460	4	1,115	2,254	11	8,785	1,791	85	10,360	1,613	100
Total victims^{Table 8.3 Note 7}	1,042	536	4	2,972	3,098	13	19,609	1,984	83	23,630	1,832	100
... not applicable Note 1 Total victims includes victims where the age was unknown. Percentage calculations exclude victims where the age was unknown. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Includes homicide, other offences causing death and attempted murder. Excludes Criminal Code traffic violations causing death such as impaired driving. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Sexual violations against children are a set of Criminal Code offences that specifically concern offences involving child and youth victims. These include offences such as sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching and sexual exploitation, but exclude sexual assault and other sexual offences not specific to children. See the “Definitions” section for a full list of offences in this category. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 Includes assault (level 1, 2 and 3), assaults against police and other peace officers, and other types of assaults such as criminal negligence causing bodily harm. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 Includes robbery; criminal harassment; incident/harassing communications; uttering threats; kidnapping, forcible confinement, abduction or hostage taking; trafficking in persons and prostitution; violent firearm offences; extortion; and other violent violations. Return to note 5 referrer Note 6 Includes impaired driving, dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, failure to stop and other Criminal Code traffic violations. Return to note 6 referrer Note 7 Includes victims where the sex was unknown. Return to note 7 referrer Note: Victims refer to those aged 89 years and younger. Victims aged 90 years and older are excluded from analyses due to possible instances of miscoding of unknown age within this age category. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Populations based upon July 1st estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division. Percentages may not add up to 100 due to rounding. For police-reported incidents that involve violations against the person, a victim record is collected for each victim involved in the incident. If an individual is a victim in multiple incidents in the same reference year, that individual will be counted as one victim for each separate incident. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.

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Excludes Criminal Code traffic violations causing death such as impaired driving.

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The remaining assaults include other assaults such as assault against a peace officer.

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Sexual violations against children are a set of Criminal Code violations that specifically concern offences involving child and youth victims. These include offences such as sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching and sexual exploitation, but exclude sexual assaults and other sexual offences not specific to children. See the “Definitions” section for a full list of offences in this category.

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Because of differences in the definition of victims and methods of counting, these victim counts should not be compared to victim counts for other provinces and territories. Moreover, these counts should also not be compared to the count of police-reported victims from the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.

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Counts refer to newly opened cases or referrals in the reference year. In addition to victims in charge-related matters, Winnipeg’s Victim Services in 2016 provided support to victims in 10,017 non-criminal, non-charge domestic incidents.

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This can largely be attributed to the mandate of Manitoba Justice Victim Services, which deals primarily with victims of the most serious crimes.

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This includes some adult survivors of sexual violations against children. Sexual violations against children are a set of Criminal Code offences that specifically concern offences involving child and youth victims. These include offences such as sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching and sexual exploitation, but exclude sexual assault and other sexual offences not specific to children. See the “Definitions” section for a full list of offences in this category.

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