Table 3
Victims of police-reported violent crime, by victim age group and sex, and type of offence, Canada, 2017

Table 3
Victims of police-reported violent crime, by victim age group and sex, and type of offence, Canada, 2017
Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of police-reported violent crime. The information is grouped by Type of offence (appearing as row headers), Victim age group and sex, 24 and younger, 25 and older, 11 and younger, 12 to 17, 18 to 24, Total, Female and Male, calculated using rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence Victim age group and sex
24 and younger 25 and olderTable 3 Note 2
11 and younger 12 to 17 18 to 24 TotalTable 3 Note 1
Female Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female Male
rate
Offences related to homicide or death 1 1 1 4 4 16 2 7 2 6
Homicide and other offences causing deathTable 3 Note 3 1 1 1 1 2 7 1 3 1 3
Attempted murder 0.3 0.5 1 3 2 9 1 4 1 3
Sexual offences 181 60 921 98 371 27 407 58 67 6
Sexual assault 76 32 540 51 338 24 263 34 62 5
Sexual assault (level 3)—aggravated 0.1 0.2 2 0 2 1 1 0.5 0.5 0.1
Sexual assault (level 2)—weapon or causing bodily harm 1 0.4 6 1 5 1 3 1 1 0.3
Sexual assault (level 1) 75 32 532 50 331 22 259 33 60 5
Sexual violations against childrenTable 3 Note 4 102 27 324 39 1 0.1 119 21 0.01 0.01
OtherTable 3 Note 5 3 1 57 8 33 3 25 3 6 1
Physical assault offences 141 219 817 915 1,392 1,154 693 676 568 615
Assault 137 215 809 900 1,370 1,096 683 652 553 554
Assault (level 3)—aggravated 2 1 6 12 14 35 7 14 5 13
Assault (level 2)—weapon or causing bodily harm 30 46 146 246 257 353 129 190 102 162
Assault (level 1) 106 167 656 642 1,099 708 547 448 446 379
OtherTable 3 Note 6 3 4 8 15 22 57 10 24 15 61
Other violent offences 51 53 441 521 528 462 291 289 241 239
RobberyTable 3 Note 7 1 4 43 253 93 217 40 128 30 58
Criminal harassment 4 4 80 23 116 19 57 13 55 19
Indecent or harassing communications 2 1 44 9 43 10 24 6 22 12
Uttering threats 30 32 198 210 188 181 118 120 110 135
Kidnapping, forcible confinement, abduction, hostage takingTable 3 Note 8 8 7 28 6 66 8 31 7 15 3
Commodification of sexual activityTable 3 Note 9 0 0 9 0.3 5 0.1 3 0.1 0.3 0.05
OtherTable 3 Note 10 6 6 38 19 18 27 17 16 9 13
Total 374 333 2,181 1,538 2,295 1,658 1,394 1,030 878 867
Note 1

Includes victims aged 24 and younger.

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Note 2

Includes victims aged 25 to 89. Victims aged 90 and older are excluded due to possible instances of miscoding of unknown age within this age category.

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Note 3

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

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Note 4

Includes sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching, sexual exploitation, making sexually explicit material available to a child, parent or guardian procuring sexual activity, householder permitting sexual activity, luring a child by means of telecommunication, agreement or arrangement (sexual offences against a child) and bestiality (in presence of, or incites, a child). Victim age is calculated based on the end date of an incident, as reported by the police. Some victims experience violence over a period of time, sometimes years, all of which may be considered by the police to be part of one continuous incident. Information about the number and dates of individual incidents for these victims of continuous violence is not available. For this reason, a small number of victims aged 18 and older appear for sexual violations against children as one of the included offences was the most serious offence recorded as part of the continuous incident.

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Note 5

Includes sexual exploitation of a person with a disability, incest, anal intercourse, bestiality (commit, compel or incite a person), voyeurism and non-consensual distribution of intimate images.

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Note 6

Includes unlawfully causing bodily harm, discharging a firearm with intent, using a firearm or imitation firearm in the commission of an offence, pointing a firearm, assault against a peace-public officer, assault against a peace-public officer with a weapon or causing bodily harm, aggravated assault against a peace-public officer, criminal negligence causing bodily harm, trap likely to or causing bodily harm and other assaults.

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Note 7

Includes robbery and robbery to steal a firearm.

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Note 8

Includes kidnapping, forcible confinement, hostage taking, trafficking in persons, abduction younger than age 14 (not a parent or guardian), abduction younger than age 16, removal of a child from Canada, abduction younger than age 14 (contravening a custody order) and abduction younger than age 14 (parent or guardian).

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Note 9

Includes obtaining sexual services for consideration, obtaining sexual services for consideration from a person younger than age 18, material benefit from sexual services, material benefit for sexual services provided by a person younger than age 18, procuring, procuring a person younger than age 18 and advertising sexual services.

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Note 10

Includes conspiring to commit murder, corrupting a child, extortion, intimidating of a justice system participant or journalist, intimidating a non-justice system participant, explosives causing death or bodily harm, arson (disregard for human life), failure to comply with safeguards, forging or destruction of documents and other violations against the person.

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Note: Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Populations based on July 1 estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division. Victims refer to those aged 89 and younger. Excludes victims where the age or the sex was unknown.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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