Table 1.2
Child and youth victims of police-reported family and non-family violence, by victim sex, age group and type of violation, Canada, 2018


Table 1.2
Child and youth victims of police-reported family and non-family violence, by victim sex, age group and type of violation, Canada, 2018
Table summary
This table displays the results of Child and youth victims of police-reported family and non-family violence. The information is grouped by Victim sex and type of violation (appearing as row headers), Age group of victim, Total victims, 5 years and younger, 6 to 11 years, 12 to 14 years and 15 to 17 years, calculated using number and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Victim sex and type of violation Age group of victim Total victims
5 years and younger 6 to 11 years 12 to 14 years 15 to 17 years
number rate number rate number rate number rate number rate
Family violence
Female victims
Homicide and other violations causing deathTable 1.2 Note 1 6 1 1 0.1 2 0.3 4 1 13 0.4
Attempted murderTable 1.2 Note 2 2 0.2 1 0.1 0 0 2 0.3 5 0.1
Sexual offencesTable 1.2 Note 3 861 76 1,998 168 1,345 235 1,004 172 5,208 149
Sexual assaultTable 1.2 Note 4 400 35 808 68 616 107 660 113 2,484 71
Sexual violations against childrenTable 1.2 Note 5 461 40 1,190 100 729 127 344 59 2,724 78
Physical assaultTable 1.2 Note 6 792 69 1,404 118 1,134 198 1,646 281 4,976 143
Other offences involving violence or the threat of violenceTable 1.2 Note 7 323 28 304 25 205 36 383 65 1,215 35
Total female victims 1,984 174 3,708 311 2,686 469 3,039 520 11,417 327
Male victims
Homicide and other violations causing deathTable 1.2 Note 1 7 1 1 0.1 1 0.2 2 0.3 11 0.3
Attempted murderTable 1.2 Note 2 4 0.3 7 1 0 0 2 0.3 13 0.4
Sexual offencesTable 1.2 Note 3 320 27 547 44 195 33 116 19 1,178 32
Sexual assaultTable 1.2 Note 4 144 12 277 22 101 17 90 15 612 17
Sexual violations against childrenTable 1.2 Note 5 176 15 270 22 94 16 26 4 566 16
Physical assaultTable 1.2 Note 6 1,060 89 2,089 169 1,063 179 1,182 193 5,394 148
Other offences involving violence or the threat of violenceTable 1.2 Note 7 330 28 289 23 141 24 192 31 952 26
Total male victims 1,721 144 2,933 237 1,400 236 1,494 244 7,548 207
Total victims
Homicide and other violations causing deathTable 1.2 Note 1 13 1 2 0.1 3 0.3 6 1 24 0.3
Attempted murderTable 1.2 Note 2 6 0.3 8 0.3 0 0 4 0.3 18 0.3
Sexual offencesTable 1.2 Note 3 1,181 51 2,545 105 1,540 132 1,120 94 6,386 90
Sexual assaultTable 1.2 Note 4 544 23 1,085 45 717 61 750 63 3,096 43
Sexual violations against childrenTable 1.2 Note 5 637 27 1,460 60 823 70 370 31 3,290 46
Physical assaultTable 1.2 Note 6 1,852 79 3,493 144 2,197 188 2,828 236 10,370 145
Other offences involving violence or the threat of violenceTable 1.2 Note 7 653 28 593 24 346 30 575 48 2,167 30
Total victims 3,705 159 6,641 273 4,086 350 4,533 379 18,965 266
Non-family violence
Female victims
Homicide and other violations causing deathTable 1.2 Note 1 2 0.2 1 0.1 6 1 4 1 13 0.4
Attempted murderTable 1.2 Note 2 4 0.4 0 0 0 0 14 2 18 1
Sexual offencesTable 1.2 Note 3 390 34 1,287 108 3,725 650 4,640 794 10,042 288
Sexual assaultTable 1.2 Note 4 194 17 515 43 1,907 333 3,633 621 6,249 179
Sexual violations against childrenTable 1.2 Note 5 196 17 772 65 1,818 317 1,007 172 3,793 109
Physical assaultTable 1.2 Note 6 257 23 811 68 2,138 373 4,202 719 7,408 212
Other offences involving violence or the threat of violenceTable 1.2 Note 7 162 14 555 47 1,956 341 2,893 495 5,566 159
Total female victims 815 71 2,654 223 7,825 1,366 11,753 2,010 23,047 660
Male victims
Homicide and other violations causing deathTable 1.2 Note 1 1 0.1 3 0.2 1 0.2 13 2 18 0.5
Attempted murderTable 1.2 Note 2 1 0.1 1 0.1 4 1 21 3 27 1
Sexual offencesTable 1.2 Note 3 167 14 520 42 478 80 449 73 1,614 44
Sexual assaultTable 1.2 Note 4 85 7 280 23 254 43 304 50 923 25
Sexual violations against childrenTable 1.2 Note 5 82 7 240 19 224 38 145 24 691 19
Physical assaultTable 1.2 Note 6 332 28 1,705 138 3,262 549 4,935 807 10,234 281
Other offences involving violence or the threat of violenceTable 1.2 Note 7 178 15 648 52 2,064 347 3,650 597 6,540 180
Total male victims 679 57 2,877 232 5,809 977 9,068 1,483 18,433 506
Total victims
Homicide and other violations causing deathTable 1.2 Note 1 3 0.1 4 0.2 7 1 17 1 31 0.4
Attempted murderTable 1.2 Note 2 5 0.2 1 0.04 4 0.3 35 3 45 1
Sexual offencesTable 1.2 Note 3 557 24 1,807 74 4,203 360 5,089 425 11,656 163
Sexual assaultTable 1.2 Note 4 279 12 795 33 2,161 185 3,937 329 7,172 101
Sexual violations against childrenTable 1.2 Note 5 278 12 1,012 42 2,042 175 1,152 96 4,484 63
Physical assaultTable 1.2 Note 6 589 25 2,516 103 5,400 463 9,137 764 17,642 247
Other offences involving violence or the threat of violenceTable 1.2 Note 7 340 15 1,203 49 4,020 344 6,543 547 12,106 170
Total victims 1,494 64 5,531 228 13,634 1,168 20,821 1,741 41,480 582
Note 1

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

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Note 2

Includes conspiracy to commit murder.

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Note 3

Includes sexual assault and sexual violations against children.

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Note 4

Includes sexual assault level 1, sexual assault level 2 (with a weapon or causing bodily harm) and sexual assault level 3 (aggravated sexual assault).

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Note 5

Sexual violations against children refer to a set of Criminal Code offences that specifically concern offences involving child and youth victims. These include offences such as sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching and sexual exploitation, but exclude sexual assault (levels 1, 2 and 3) and other sexual offences not specific to children.

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Note 6

Includes assault level 1, assault level 2 (with a weapon or causing bodily harm) and assault level 3 (aggravated assault).

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Note 7

Includes all other violent violations not otherwise listed.

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Note: Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population aged 17 years and younger. Populations based upon July 1st estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division. Family violence refers to violence committed by parents (biological, step, adopted and foster), siblings (biological, step, half, adopted and foster), extended family members (e.g., grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins and in-laws) and spouses (legally married, separated, divorced and common-law). Victims refer to those aged 17 years and younger. Excludes spousal victims under the age of 15 years and victims of dating or other intimate partner violence under the age of 12 years. Excludes victims where the sex or the age was unknown or where the accused-victim relationship was unknown.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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