Table 1.3
Child and youth victims of police-reported family and non-family violence, by victim sex, type of violation and clearance status, Canada, 2017

Table 1.3
Child and youth victims of police-reported family and non-family violence, by victim sex, type of violation and clearance status, 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 Type of violation and clearance status (appearing as row headers), Family violence, Non-family violence, Total victims, Female victims and Male victims, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of violation and clearance status	Family violence						Non-family violence						Total victims^{Table 1.3 Note 1}
	Female victims		Male victims		Total victims		Female victims		Male victims		Total victims		Total victims^{Table 1.3 Note 1}
	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	percent
Homicide, other violations causing death and attempted murder^{Table 1.3 Note 2}
Not cleared^{Table 1.3 Note 3}	1	5	2	11	3	8	7	44	20	37	27	39	28
Cleared by charge	14	74	15	83	29	78	8	50	34	63	42	60	66
Cleared otherwise	4	21	1	6	5	14	1	6	0	0	1	1	6
Victim/complainant requests no further action^{Table 1.3 Note 4}	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	6	0	0	1	1	1
Reasons beyond the control of department	1	5	0	0	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Departmental discretion	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other^{Table 1.3 Note 5}	3	16	1	6	4	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	4
Total^{Table 1.3 Note 6}	19	100	18	100	37	100	16	100	54	100	70	100	100
Sexual offences^{Table 1.3 Note 7}
Not cleared^{Table 1.3 Note 3}	1,772	39	461	47	2,233	40	3,922	43	696	46	4,618	44	42
Cleared by charge	2,145	47	350	35	2,495	45	3,611	40	539	36	4,150	39	41
Cleared otherwise	672	15	176	18	848	15	1,568	17	273	18	1,841	17	17
Victim/complainant requests no further action^{Table 1.3 Note 4}	159	3	30	3	189	3	537	6	43	3	580	5	5
Reasons beyond the control of department	227	5	61	6	288	5	313	3	49	3	362	3	4
Departmental discretion	124	3	34	3	158	3	456	5	79	5	535	5	4
Other^{Table 1.3 Note 5}	162	4	51	5	213	4	262	3	102	7	364	3	4
Total^{Table 1.3 Note 6}	4,589	100	987	100	5,576	100	9,101	100	1,508	100	10,609	100	100
Physical assault^{Table 1.3 Note 8}
Not cleared^{Table 1.3 Note 3}	1,118	24	1,374	27	2,492	25	1,951	26	3,304	31	5,255	29	28
Cleared by charge	2,012	43	1,994	39	4,006	41	3,132	42	3,342	31	6,474	36	37
Cleared otherwise	1,572	33	1,737	34	3,309	34	2,394	32	4,063	38	6,457	36	35
Victim/complainant requests no further action^{Table 1.3 Note 4}	542	12	499	10	1,041	11	763	10	1,269	12	2,032	11	11
Reasons beyond the control of department	439	9	547	11	986	10	158	2	232	2	390	2	5
Departmental discretion	523	11	621	12	1,144	12	997	13	1,667	16	2,664	15	14
Other^{Table 1.3 Note 5}	68	1	70	1	138	1	476	6	895	8	1,371	8	5
Total^{Table 1.3 Note 6}	4,702	100	5,105	100	9,807	100	7,477	100	10,709	100	18,186	100	100
Other offences involving violence or the threat of violence^{Table 1.3 Note 9}
Not cleared^{Table 1.3 Note 3}	236	20	154	17	390	19	2,046	36	2,919	42	4,965	39	36
Cleared by charge	698	58	525	59	1,223	58	1,777	31	2,354	34	4,131	33	36
Cleared otherwise	269	22	211	24	480	23	1,925	33	1,656	24	3,581	28	27
Victim/complainant requests no further action^{Table 1.3 Note 4}	82	7	58	7	140	7	521	9	535	8	1,056	8	8
Reasons beyond the control of department	94	8	78	9	172	8	127	2	97	1	224	2	3
Departmental discretion	69	6	54	6	123	6	907	16	724	10	1,631	13	12
Other^{Table 1.3 Note 5}	24	2	21	2	45	2	370	6	300	4	670	5	5
Total^{Table 1.3 Note 6}	1,203	100	890	100	2,093	100	5,748	100	6,929	100	12,677	100	100
Note 1 Includes child and youth victims of family and non-family violence. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Includes first degree murder, second degree murder, manslaughter, infanticide, criminal negligence causing death and other related violations causing death. Also includes attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Includes founded incidents where an accused person has not been identified in connection with the incident, and incidents where there is insufficient evidence to lay a charge or to clear the incident through other means. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 Includes incidents where an accused person was known and sufficient evidence was obtained to support the laying of a charge, but the complainant refused to proceed with charges against the accused. As a result, police used discretion to not lay or recommend a charge. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 Includes suicide of accused, death of accused, death of witness/complainant, accused under the age of 12 years, accused has diplomatic immunity, committal of accused to mental health facility, accused in foreign country, accused involved in other incidents, accused already sentenced, diversionary programs, incident cleared by a lesser statute, and incident cleared by other municipal, provincial or federal agency. Return to note 5 referrer Note 6 For incidents that involve multiple victims, a single clearance status is recorded in relation to each victim in the incident. For instance, if charges are laid in relation to a violation against one of the victims, the clearance status for all victims will be "charged." Thus, under- or over-counts are possible with respect to clearance status. Return to note 6 referrer Note 7 Includes sexual assault (levels 1, 2 and 3) and sexual violations against children. Sexual violations against children 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. Other sexual offences are included in the category "Other offences involving violence or threat of violence." Return to note 7 referrer Note 8 Includes physical assault levels 1, 2 and 3. Return to note 8 referrer Note 9 Includes all other violent violations not otherwise listed. Return to note 9 referrer Note: 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. Percentages may not total 100% due to rounding. In cases of domestic violence, every Canadian jurisdiction has implemented some form of pro-charging policies. The particular parameters of these pro-charging policies can vary regionally. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.

Date modified:: 2018-12-05

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Table 1.3
Child and youth victims of police-reported family and non-family violence, by victim sex, type of violation and clearance status, Canada, 2017

Table 1.3 Child and youth victims of police-reported family and non-family violence, by victim sex, type of violation and clearance status, Canada, 2017

Table 1.3
Child and youth victims of police-reported family and non-family violence, by victim sex, type of violation and clearance status, Canada, 2017