Table 6
Female victims of police-reported violent crime in the North, by type of offence and victim age group, Canada, 2017


Table 6
Female victims of police-reported violent crime in the North, by type of offence and victim age group, Canada, 2017
Table summary
This table displays the results of Female victims of police-reported violent crime in the North. The information is grouped by Type of offence (appearing as row headers), Victim age group, Young women and girls aged 0 to 24, 25 to 89, 0 to 11, 12 to 17, 18 to 24 and Total 0 to 24, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence Victim age group
Young women and girls aged 0 to 24 25 to 89
0 to 11 12 to 17 18 to 24 Total 0 to 24
number percent number percent number percent number percent number percent
Offences related to homicide or death 3 0.2 3 0.1 7 0.1 13 0.1 30 0.2
Homicide and other offences causing deathTable 6 Note 1 3 0.2 2 0.1 6 0.1 11 0.1 21 0.1
Attempted murder 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 9 0.1
Sexual offences 688 49 1,505 37 675 10 2,868 24 1,060 6
Sexual assault 253 18 778 19 621 9 1,652 14 985 5
Sexual assault (level 1) 250 18 769 19 606 9 1,625 14 949 5
Sexual assault (level 2)—weapon or causing bodily harm 3 0.2 8 0.2 8 0.1 19 0.2 31 0.2
Sexual assault (level 3)—aggravated 0 0 1 0 7 0.1 8 0.1 5 0
Sexual violations against childrenTable 6 Note 2 423 30 661 16 0 0 1,084 9 0 0
Other sexual offencesTable 6 Note 3 12 1 66 2 54 1 132 1 75 0.4
Physical assault offences 550 39 2,015 50 4,979 76 7,544 63 14,390 76
Assault 530 38 2,001 49 4,917 75 7,448 62 14,102 75
Assault (level 1) 393 28 1,662 41 3,905 59 5,960 50 11,345 60
Assault (level 2)—weapon or causing bodily harm 127 9 315 8 935 14 1,377 11 2,545 13
Assault (level 3)—aggravated 10 1 24 1 77 1 111 1 212 1
Other assault offencesTable 6 Note 4 20 1 14 0.4 62 1 96 1 288 2
Criminal harassment and threat offences 106 8 414 10 668 10 1,188 10 2,785 15
Criminal harassment 6 0.4 81 2 178 3 265 2 651 3
Indecent, harassing communications 4 0.3 58 1 60 1 122 1 232 1
Uttering threats 96 7 275 7 430 7 801 7 1,902 10
Deprivation of freedom offences 43 3 72 2 241 4 356 3 524 3
RobberyTable 6 Note 5 8 1 23 1 72 1 103 1 204 1
Kidnapping, forcible confinement, abduction, hostage takingTable 6 Note 6 35 2 45 1 162 2 242 2 311 2
Trafficking in persons, commodification of sexual activityTable 6 Note 7 0 0 4 0.1 7 0.1 11 0.1 9 0.1
Other violent offencesTable 6 Note 8 16 1 35 1 16 0.2 67 1 97 1
Total 1,406 100 4,044 100 6,586 100 12,036 100 18,886 100
Note 1

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

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Note 2

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).

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Note 3

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 4

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 5

Includes robbery and robbery to steal a firearm.

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Note 6

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 7

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 8

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. Number columns represent the number of female victims of a police-reported violent crime in 2017. Percent columns represent the distribution of violent crimes across offence types, for each individual age grouping. 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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