Table 3
Rate of police-reported violent crime against female victims, by type of offence, victim age group and North/South region, Canada, 2017


Table 3
Rate of police-reported violent crime against female victims, by type of offence, victim age group and North/South region, Canada, 2017
Table summary
This table displays the results of Rate of police-reported violent crime against female victims. The information is grouped by Type of offence (appearing as row headers), Victim age group and North/South region, Gap in rate(Total 0 to 24), Young women and girls aged 0 to 24, 25 to 89, 0 to 11, 12 to 17, 18 to 24, Total 0 to 24, North and South, calculated using rate per 100,000 population units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence Victim age group and North/South region Gap in rateTable 3 Note 1 (Total 0 to 24)
Young women and girls aged 0 to 24 25 to 89
0 to 11 12 to 17 18 to 24 Total 0 to 24
North South North South North South North South North South
rate per 100,000 population
Offences related to homicide or death 1.86 0.94 4.06 1.24 7.34 4.02 3.93 2.00 4.00 2.03 2.0
Homicide and other offences causing deathTable 3 Note 2 1.86 0.61 2.71 0.48 6.30 1.84 3.33 0.98 2.80 0.93 3.4
Attempted murder 0.00 0.33 1.35 0.76 1.05 2.17 0.61 1.02 1.20 1.10 0.6
Sexual offences 427 162 2,038 843 708 350 868 375 141 63 2.3
Sexual assault 157 70 1,054 504 652 318 500 247 131 57 2.0
Sexual assault (level 1) 155 69 1,041 496 636 312 492 243 127 56 2.0
Sexual assault (level 2)—weapon or causing bodily harm 2 1 11 6 8 4 6 3 4 1 1.9
Sexual assault (level 3)—aggravated 0 0.1 1 2 7 2 2 1 1 0.5 2.2
Sexual violations against childrenTable 3 Note 3 262 90 895 284 0 1 328 104 0 0 3.1
Other sexual offencesTable 3 Note 4 7 3 89 54 57 31 40 23 10 6 1.7
Physical assault offences 341 125 2,729 682 5,224 1,152 2,283 581 1,921 486 3.9
Assault 329 123 2,710 675 5,159 1,132 2,254 572 1,882 473 3.9
Assault (level 1) 244 95 2,251 544 4,097 911 1,804 459 1,514 381 3.9
Assault (level 2)—weapon or causing bodily harm 79 26 427 127 981 211 417 109 340 87 3.8
Assault (level 3)—aggravated 6 1 32 4 81 10 34 5 28 4 7.0
Other assault offencesTable 3 Note 5 12 3 19 8 65 19 29 9 38 14 3.2
Criminal harassment and threat offences 66 34 561 305 701 324 360 188 372 175 1.9
Criminal harassment 4 4 110 78 187 111 80 55 87 53 1.5
Indecent, harassing communications 2 2 79 41 63 42 37 24 31 21 1.6
Uttering threats 60 28 372 186 451 171 242 110 254 101 2.2
Deprivation of freedom offences 27 8 97 80 253 158 108 73 70 44 1.5
RobberyTable 3 Note 6 5 1 31 44 76 94 31 41 27 30 0.8
Kidnapping, forcible confinement, abduction, hostage takingTable 3 Note 7 22 7 61 19 170 51 73 24 42 13 3.0
Trafficking in persons, commodification of sexual activityTable 3 Note 8 0 0 5 17 7 12 3 8 1 1 0.4
Other violent offencesTable 3 Note 9 10 5 47 37 17 19 20 17 13 8 1.2
Total 872 336 5,476 1,948 6,910 2,006 3,643 1,235 2,521 779 2.9
Note 1

Represents how many times greater the violent crime rate was in the North compared with the South, for the female population aged 0 to 24. Rate gaps may be adjusted from baseline figures provided in table due to rounding.

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Note 2

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

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Note 3

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). 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 older than 17 years of age 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 4

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 5

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 6

Includes robbery and robbery to steal a firearm.

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Note 7

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 8

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 9

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: Victim age group is based on the age of the victim at the time of the incident. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Populations are based upon July 1st estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division. The North includes the three territories as well as the northern regions of Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia, based on a geographical definition used by the Conference Board of Canada's Centre for the North. The South includes the southern regions of these provinces in addition to all of Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Excludes victims where sex or age was unknown or older than 89 years.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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