Table 2.3
Victims of police-reported intimate partner violence, by victim sex, type of violation and clearance status, Canada, 2017

Table 2.3
Victims of police-reported intimate partner violence, by victim sex, type of violation and clearance status, Canada, 2017
Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of police-reported intimate partner violence. The information is grouped by Type of violation and clearance status (appearing as row headers), Spousal violence, Dating 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	Spousal violence^{Table 2.3 Note 1}						Dating violence^{Table 2.3 Note 2}						Total victims^{Table 2.3 Note 3}
	Female victims		Male victims		Total victims		Female victims		Male victims		Total victims		Total victims^{Table 2.3 Note 3}
	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	percent
Homicide, violations causing death and attempted murder^{Table 2.3 Note 4}
Not cleared^{Table 2.3 Note 5}	5	5	7	33	12	10	9	16	4	21	13	17	13
Cleared by charge	81	83	12	57	93	78	43	75	13	68	56	74	76
Cleared otherwise	12	12	2	10	14	12	5	9	2	11	7	9	11
Victim/complainant requests no further action^{Table 2.3 Note 6}	0	0	1	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Reasons beyond the control of department	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	5	2	3	1
Departmental discretion	0	0	1	5	1	1	0	0	1	5	1	1	1
Other^{Table 2.3 Note 7}	12	12	0	0	12	10	4	7	0	0	4	5	8
Total^{Table 2.3 Note 8}	98	100	21	100	119	100	57	100	19	100	76	100	100
Sexual assault^{Table 2.3 Note 9}
Not cleared^{Table 2.3 Note 5}	352	28	12	38	364	29	937	39	40	48	977	39	36
Cleared by charge	709	57	13	41	722	57	1,207	50	33	39	1,240	50	52
Cleared otherwise	179	14	7	22	186	15	258	11	11	13	269	11	12
Victim/complainant requests no further action^{Table 2.3 Note 6}	79	6	3	9	82	6	129	5	6	7	135	5	6
Reasons beyond the control of department	88	7	1	3	89	7	66	3	1	1	67	3	4
Departmental discretion	8	1	2	6	10	1	50	2	1	1	51	2	2
Other^{Table 2.3 Note 7}	4	0.3	1	3	5	0.4	13	1	3	4	16	1	1
Total^{Table 2.3 Note 8}	1,240	100	32	100	1,272	100	2,402	100	84	100	2,486	100	100
Physical assault^{Table 2.3 Note 10}
Not cleared^{Table 2.3 Note 5}	2,341	10	1,285	16	3,626	11	3,425	11	1,562	16	4,987	12	12
Cleared by charge	17,874	75	4,244	54	22,118	69	25,553	82	6,803	71	32,356	79	75
Cleared otherwise	3,731	16	2,362	30	6,093	19	2,076	7	1,281	13	3,357	8	13
Victim/complainant requests no further action^{Table 2.3 Note 6}	1,121	5	659	8	1,780	6	1,039	3	659	7	1,698	4	5
Reasons beyond the control of department	2,170	9	1,394	18	3,564	11	455	1	230	2	685	2	6
Departmental discretion	331	1	267	3	598	2	431	1	344	4	775	2	2
Other^{Table 2.3 Note 7}	109	0.5	42	1	151	0.5	151	0.5	48	0.5	199	0.5	0.5
Total^{Table 2.3 Note 8}	23,946	100	7,891	100	31,837	100	31,054	100	9,646	100	40,700	100	100
Other offences involving violence or the threat of violence^{Table 2.3 Note 11}
Not cleared^{Table 2.3 Note 5}	1,012	14	259	24	1,271	16	2,051	22	550	35	2,601	24	20
Cleared by charge	4,771	67	453	43	5,224	64	6,067	64	647	42	6,714	61	62
Cleared otherwise	1,316	19	348	33	1,664	20	1,385	15	355	23	1,740	16	18
Victim/complainant requests no further action^{Table 2.3 Note 6}	509	7	135	13	644	8	539	6	160	10	699	6	7
Reasons beyond the control of department	612	9	160	15	772	9	177	2	48	3	225	2	5
Departmental discretion	137	2	42	4	179	2	586	6	130	8	716	6	5
Other^{Table 2.3 Note 7}	58	1	11	1	69	1	83	1	17	1	100	1	1
Total^{Table 2.3 Note 8}	7,099	100	1,060	100	8,159	100	9,503	100	1,552	100	11,055	100	100
Note 1 Includes married, separated or divorced spouses and common-law partners (current and former). Includes victims aged 15 to 89 years. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Includes boyfriends and girlfriends (current and former) and other intimate partners. Includes victims aged 15 to 89 years. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Includes married, separated or divorced spouses, common-law partners (current and former), dating partners (current and former) and other intimate partners. Includes victims aged 15 to 89 years. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 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 4 referrer Note 5 Includes founded incidents where there is insufficient evidence to lay a charge or to clear the incident through other means. Return to note 5 referrer Note 6 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 6 referrer Note 7 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 7 referrer Note 8 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 8 referrer Note 9 Includes sexual assault levels 1, 2 and 3. Return to note 9 referrer Note 10 Includes physical assault levels 1, 2 and 3. Return to note 10 referrer Note 11 Includes sexual violations against children and all other violent violations not otherwise listed. Return to note 11 referrer Note: Intimate partner violence refers to violence committed by legally married, separated or divorced spouses, common-law partners (current and former), dating partners (current and former) and other intimate partners. Victims refer to those aged 15 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. 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 2.3
Victims of police-reported intimate partner violence, by victim sex, type of violation and clearance status, Canada, 2017

Table 2.3 Victims of police-reported intimate partner violence, by victim sex, type of violation and clearance status, Canada, 2017

Table 2.3
Victims of police-reported intimate partner violence, by victim sex, type of violation and clearance status, Canada, 2017