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Table 3
Persons accused of police-reported intimate partner violence, by sex of the accused, same-/opposite-sex status and type of offence, Canada, 2009 to 2017

Table 3
Persons accused of police-reported intimate partner violence, by sex of the accused, same-/opposite-sex status and type of offence, Canada, 2009 to 2017
Table summary
This table displays the results of Persons accused of police-reported intimate partner violence. The information is grouped by Type of offence (appearing as row headers), Females accused, Males accused, Total, Same-sex and Opposite-sex, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence	Females accused				Males accused				Total
	Same-sex		Opposite-sex		Same-sex		Opposite-sex		Same-sex		Opposite-sex
	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent
Violations causing death^{Table 3 Note 1}	10	0.1	107	0.1	25	0.2	549	0.1	35	0.2	656	0.1
Attempted murder^{Table 3 Note 2}	4	0.04	128	0.11	28	0.23	474	0.09	32	0.14	602	0.10
Sexual offences^{Table 3 Note 3}	113	1.1	188	0.2	198	2	16,256	3	311	1	16,444	3
Physical assault	7,702	77	98,520	88	9,591	78	391,941	76	17,293	77	490,461	78
Major assault (levels 2 and 3)^{Table 3 Note 4}	1,204	12	24,906	22	2,200	18	63,237	12	3,404	15	88,143	14
Common assault (level 1)^{Table 3 Note 5}	6,420	64	72,807	65	7,270	59	324,219	63	13,690	61	397,026	63
Other assaults^{Table 3 Note 6}	78	0.8	807	0.7	121	1	4,485	0.9	199	0.9	5,292	0.8
Criminal harassment	761	8	4,276	4	559	5	38,757	7	1,320	6	43,033	7
Indecent or harassing communications^{Table 3 Note 7}	265	3	2,491	2	153	1	7,699	1	418	2	10,190	2
Uttering threats	905	9	5,382	5	1,463	12	40,319	8	2,368	11	45,701	7
Robbery	26	0.3	108	0.1	65	0.5	1,677	0.3	91	0.4	1,785	0.3
Other violent violations^{Table 3 Note 8}	189	2	535	0.5	266	2	19,754	4	455	2	20,289	3
Total	9,975	100	111,735	100	12,348	100	517,426	100	22,323	100	629,161	100
Note 1 Violations causing death include first degree murder, second degree murder, manslaughter, criminal negligence, and other related violations causing death. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Attempted murder includes conspire to commit murder. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Includes sexual assault, classified as one of three levels according to the seriousness of the incidents. Level 1 sexual assault is the category of least physical injury to the victim; level 2 includes sexual assault with a weapon, threats to use a weapon, or causing bodily harm; and level 3 includes aggravated sexual assault which wounds, maims, disfigures, or endangers the life of the victim. Also includes other sexual crimes such as sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching, sexual exploitation, incest, luring a child via a computer, and voyeurism. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 Level 2 assault is defined as assault with a weapon or causing bodily harm and level 3 assault is defined as assault that wounds, maims, disfigures or endangers the life of the victim. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 Level 1 assault is the least serious form of assault and includes pushing, slapping, punching and face-to-face verbal threats. Return to note 5 referrer Note 6 Includes criminal negligence causing bodily harm, trap likely to cause or causing bodily harm, unlawfully causing bodily harm, discharge firearm with intent, using firearm or imitation firearm in the commission of an offence, pointing a firearm, assault against a peace or public officer, and other assaults. Return to note 6 referrer Note 7 Includes making an indecent communication to a person by means of telecommunication with the intent to alarm or annoy the person, and repeatedly communicating or causing repeated communications to be made by means of telecommunication without lawful excuse and with intent to harass the person. Return to note 7 referrer Note 8 Includes kidnapping, forcible confinement, hostage-taking, trafficking in persons, abduction, extortion, corrupting children, intimidation of a non-justice participant, explosives causing death or bodily harm, arson, and other violent violations. Return to note 8 referrer Note: Intimate partner violence refers to police-reported incidents of violent Criminal Code offences committed among individuals in current or former legally married or common-law partnerships, boyfriend or girlfriend relationships, or other intimate relationships. Same-/opposite-sex status was derived from the relationship variable, and the sex of the victim and of the accused. Only incidents which involved one victim and one accused person are included. Excludes incidents where the sex or the age of the victim or the accused were unknown, or where the accused-victim relationship was unknown. Incidents involving victims and accused individuals aged 90 years and older are excluded from analyses due to possible instances of miscoding of unknown age within this age category. Incidents involving children under 15 years are excluded from the analysis. In order to support more detailed analysis on same-sex intimate partner violence, data have been pooled from 2009 to 2017. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (Trend Database).

Date modified:: 2019-03-20