Table 1.2
Child and youth victims of police-reported family and non-family violence, by victim sex, age group and type of violation, Canada, 2017

Table 1.2
Child and youth victims of police-reported family and non-family violence, by victim sex, age group and type of violation, Canada, 2017
Table summary
This table displays the results of Child and youth victims of police-reported family and non-family violence. The information is grouped by Victim sex and type of violation (appearing as row headers), Age group of victim, Total victims, 5 years and younger, 6 to 11 years, 12 to 14 years and 15 and 17 years, calculated using number and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Victim sex and type of violation Age group of victim Total victims
5 years and younger 6 to 11 years 12 to 14 years 15 and 17 years
number rate number rate number rate number rate number rate
Family violence
Female victims
Homicide and other violations causing deathTable 1.2 Note 1 7 1 4 0.3 0 0 2 0.4 13 0.4
Attempted murderTable 1.2 Note 2 2 0.2 3 0.3 1 0.2 0 0 6 0.2
Sexual offencesTable 1.2 Note 3 687 61 1,808 156 1,249 227 845 148 4,589 134
Sexual assaultTable 1.2 Note 4 328 29 744 64 531 96 559 98 2,162 63
Sexual violations against childrenTable 1.2 Note 5 359 32 1,064 92 718 130 286 50 2,427 71
Physical assaultTable 1.2 Note 6 736 65 1,284 111 1,089 198 1,593 280 4,702 138
Other offences involving violence or the threat of violenceTable 1.2 Note 7 316 28 295 25 206 37 386 68 1,203 35
Total female victims 1,748 154 3,394 293 2,545 462 2,826 496 10,513 308
Male victims
Homicide and other violations causing deathTable 1.2 Note 1 7 1 3 0.2 0 0 1 0.2 11 0.3
Attempted murderTable 1.2 Note 2 3 0.3 2 0.2 1 0.2 1 0.2 7 0.2
Sexual offencesTable 1.2 Note 3 279 23 475 39 161 28 72 12 987 27
Sexual assaultTable 1.2 Note 4 162 14 239 20 87 15 57 9 545 15
Sexual violations against childrenTable 1.2 Note 5 117 10 236 19 74 13 15 2 442 12
Physical assaultTable 1.2 Note 6 1,016 85 1,868 154 1,006 173 1,215 201 5,105 142
Other offences involving violence or the threat of violenceTable 1.2 Note 7 313 26 253 21 131 23 193 32 890 25
Total male victims 1,618 135 2,601 214 1,299 224 1,482 246 7,000 195
Total victims
Homicide and other violations causing deathTable 1.2 Note 1 14 1 7 0.3 0 0 3 0.3 24 0.3
Attempted murderTable 1.2 Note 2 5 0.2 5 0.2 2 0.2 1 0.1 13 0.2
Sexual offencesTable 1.2 Note 3 966 41 2,283 96 1,410 125 917 78 5,576 80
Sexual assaultTable 1.2 Note 4 490 21 983 41 618 55 616 53 2,707 39
Sexual violations against childrenTable 1.2 Note 5 476 20 1,300 55 792 70 301 26 2,869 41
Physical assaultTable 1.2 Note 6 1,752 75 3,152 133 2,095 185 2,808 239 9,807 140
Other offences involving violence or the threat of violenceTable 1.2 Note 7 629 27 548 23 337 30 579 49 2,093 30
Total victims 3,366 144 5,995 253 3,844 340 4,308 367 17,513 250
Non-family violence
Female victims
Homicide and other violations causing deathTable 1.2 Note 1 1 0.1 0 0 1 0.2 2 0.4 4 0.1
Attempted murderTable 1.2 Note 2 0 0 3 0.3 1 0.2 8 1 12 0.4
Sexual offencesTable 1.2 Note 3 351 31 1,211 105 3,310 601 4,229 742 9,101 267
Sexual assaultTable 1.2 Note 4 171 15 487 42 1,658 301 3,266 573 5,582 164
Sexual violations against childrenTable 1.2 Note 5 180 16 724 63 1,652 300 963 169 3,519 103
Physical assaultTable 1.2 Note 6 248 22 873 75 2,088 379 4,268 749 7,477 219
Other offences involving violence or the threat of violenceTable 1.2 Note 7 144 13 555 48 2,042 371 3,007 528 5,748 168
Total female victims 744 66 2,642 228 7,442 1,352 11,514 2,021 22,342 655
Male victims
Homicide and other violations causing deathTable 1.2 Note 1 2 0.2 1 0.1 1 0.2 12 2 16 0.4
Attempted murderTable 1.2 Note 2 1 0.1 7 1 4 1 26 4 38 1
Sexual offencesTable 1.2 Note 3 179 15 497 41 458 79 374 62 1,508 42
Sexual assaultTable 1.2 Note 4 102 9 274 23 218 38 239 40 833 23
Sexual violations against childrenTable 1.2 Note 5 77 6 223 18 240 41 135 22 675 19
Physical assaultTable 1.2 Note 6 380 32 1,903 157 3,371 581 5,055 838 10,709 298
Other offences involving violence or the threat of violenceTable 1.2 Note 7 166 14 653 54 2,246 387 3,864 640 6,929 193
Total male victims 728 61 3,061 252 6,080 1,048 9,331 1,547 19,200 534
Total victims
Homicide and other violations causing deathTable 1.2 Note 1 3 0.1 1 0.04 2 0.2 14 1 20 0.3
Attempted murderTable 1.2 Note 2 1 0.04 10 0.4 5 0.4 34 3 50 1
Sexual offencesTable 1.2 Note 3 530 23 1,708 72 3,768 333 4,603 392 10,609 151
Sexual assaultTable 1.2 Note 4 273 12 761 32 1,876 166 3,505 299 6,415 92
Sexual violations against childrenTable 1.2 Note 5 257 11 947 40 1,892 167 1,098 94 4,194 60
Physical assaultTable 1.2 Note 6 628 27 2,776 117 5,459 483 9,323 795 18,186 260
Other offences involving violence or the threat of violenceTable 1.2 Note 7 310 13 1,208 51 4,288 379 6,871 586 12,677 181
Total victims 1,472 63 5,703 240 13,522 1,196 20,845 1,777 41,542 593
Note 1

Includes first degree murder, second degree murder, manslaughter, infanticide, criminal negligence causing death and other related violations causing death.

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Note 2

Includes conspiracy to commit murder.

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Note 3

Includes sexual assault and sexual violations against children.

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Note 4

Includes sexual assault levels 1, 2 and 3.

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Note 5

Sexual violations against children refer to 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 (levels 1, 2 and 3) and other sexual offences not specific to children.

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Note 6

Includes physical assault levels 1, 2 and 3.

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Note 7

Includes all other violent violations not otherwise listed.

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Note: Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population aged 17 years and younger. 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 and victims of dating or other intimate partner violence under the age of 12 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.
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