Table 2.3
Victims of police-reported intimate partner and non-intimate partner violence, by victim sex, type of violation and clearance status, Canada, 2018

Table 2.3
Victims of police-reported intimate partner and non-intimate partner violence, by victim sex, type of violation and clearance status, Canada, 2018
Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of police-reported intimate partner and non-intimate partner violence. The information is grouped by Type of violation and clearance status (appearing as row headers), Intimate partner violence, Non-intimate partner violence, Female victims, Male victims and Total victims, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of violation and clearance status	Intimate partner violence^{Table 2.3 Note 1}						Non-intimate partner violence^{Table 2.3 Note 2}
	Female victims		Male victims		Total victims		Female victims		Male victims		Total victims
	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent
Sexual assault^{Table 2.3 Note 3}
Not cleared^{Table 2.3 Note 4}	1,791	40	66	52	1,857	40	8,762	55	1,111	65	9,873	56
Insufficient evidence to proceed	398	9	17	13	415	9	1,698	11	216	13	1,914	11
Other^{Table 2.3 Note 5}	1,393	31	49	38	1,442	31	7,064	44	895	53	7,959	45
Cleared by charge	2,309	51	43	34	2,352	50	5,293	33	387	23	5,680	32
Cleared otherwise	431	10	19	15	450	10	1,849	12	201	12	2,050	12
Victim/complainant requests no further action (accused identified)^{Table 2.3 Note 6}	236	5	10	8	246	5	1,079	7	120	7	1,199	7
Reasons beyond the control of department	123	3	6	5	129	3	209	1	22	1	231	1
Departmental discretion	44	1	1	1	45	1	407	3	38	2	445	3
Other^{Table 2.3 Note 7}	28	1	2	2	30	1	154	1	21	1	175	1
Total^{Table 2.3 Note 8}	4,531	100	128	100	4,659	100	15,904	100	1,699	100	17,603	100
Physical assault^{Table 2.3 Note 9}
Not cleared^{Table 2.3 Note 4}	7,133	12	3,240	18	10,373	14	13,641	29	29,134	36	42,775	33
Insufficient evidence to proceed	1,491	3	753	4	2,244	3	1,911	4	3,477	4	5,388	4
Other^{Table 2.3 Note 5}	5,642	10	2,487	14	8,129	11	11,730	25	25,657	32	37,387	29
Cleared by charge	44,921	78	11,237	63	56,158	74	19,777	42	31,672	39	51,449	40
Cleared otherwise	5,571	10	3,425	19	8,996	12	14,169	30	20,164	25	34,333	27
Victim/complainant requests no further action (accused identified)^{Table 2.3 Note 6}	2,227	4	1,320	7	3,547	5	9,098	19	13,883	17	22,981	18
Reasons beyond the control of department	2,319	4	1,461	8	3,780	5	682	1	1,121	1	1,803	1
Departmental discretion	709	1	557	3	1,266	2	3,451	7	4,266	5	7,717	6
Other^{Table 2.3 Note 7}	316	1	87	0.5	403	1	938	2	894	1	1,832	1
Total^{Table 2.3 Note 8}	57,625	100	17,902	100	75,527	100	47,587	100	80,970	100	128,557	100
Other offences involving violence or the threat of violence^{Table 2.3 Note 10}
Not cleared^{Table 2.3 Note 4}	3,410	21	727	29	4,137	22	11,709	37	17,839	36	29,548	36
Insufficient evidence to proceed	590	4	117	5	707	4	1,825	6	2,593	5	4,418	5
Other^{Table 2.3 Note 5}	2,820	17	610	24	3,430	18	9,884	31	15,246	31	25,130	31
Cleared by charge	10,772	65	1,110	44	11,882	62	14,148	44	24,183	48	38,331	47
Cleared otherwise	2,366	14	676	27	3,042	16	6,182	19	7,884	16	14,066	17
Victim/complainant requests no further action (accused identified)^{Table 2.3 Note 6}	994	6	326	13	1,320	7	3,207	10	4,348	9	7,555	9
Reasons beyond the control of department	610	4	154	6	764	4	609	2	848	2	1,457	2
Departmental discretion	616	4	172	7	788	4	1,888	6	2,184	4	4,072	5
Other^{Table 2.3 Note 7}	146	1	24	1	170	1	478	1	504	1	982	1
Total^{Table 2.3 Note 8}	16,548	100	2,513	100	19,061	100	32,039	100	49,906	100	81,945	100
Note 1 Includes current and former married, separated or divorced spouses and common-law partners, boyfriends and girlfriends and other intimate partners. Includes victims aged 15 to 89 years. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Includes victims aged 15 to 89 years. Excludes unknown relationships. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Includes sexual assault level 1, sexual assault level 2 (with a weapon or causing bodily harm) and sexual assault level 3 (aggravated sexual assault). Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 Following the reclassification of founded and unfounded criminal incidents in the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, a number of new clearance status categories were introduced in 2018. Replacing the former category of “not cleared,” new categories include insufficient evidence to proceed, open and still under investigation, and victim/complainant declines to proceed (no accused identified). As these new categories were implemented throughout the year, data for 2018 are subject to inconsistent reporting and should be used with caution. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 Includes open and still under investigation, and victim/complainant declines to proceed (no accused identified). Return to note 5 referrer Note 6 Includes incidents where an accused person was known and sufficient evidence was obtained to support the laying of a charge, but the complainant refused to proceed with charges against the accused. As a result, police used discretion to not lay or recommend a charge. Return to note 6 referrer Note 7 Includes suicide of accused, death of accused, death of witness/complainant, accused under the age of 12 years, accused has diplomatic immunity, committal of accused to mental health facility, accused in foreign country, accused involved in other incidents, accused already sentenced, diversionary programs, incident cleared by a lesser statute, and incident cleared by other municipal, provincial or federal agency. Return to note 7 referrer Note 8 For incidents that involve multiple victims, a single clearance status is recorded in relation to each victim in the incident. For instance, if charges are laid in relation to a violation against one of the victims, the clearance status for all victims will be "charged." Thus, under- or over-counts are possible with respect to clearance status. Return to note 8 referrer Note 9 Includes assault level 1, assault level 2 (with a weapon or causing bodily harm) and assault level 3 (aggravated assault). Return to note 9 referrer Note 10 Includes sexual violations against children and all other violent violations not otherwise listed; however, homicide, other violations causing death and attempted murder are excluded. Return to note 10 referrer Note: Intimate partner violence refers to violence committed by legally married, separated or divorced spouses, common-law partners (current and former), boyfriends and girlfriends (current and former) and other intimate partners. Victims refer to those aged 15 to 89 years. Victims aged 90 years and older are excluded from analyses due to possible instances of miscoding of unknown age within this age category. Excludes victims where the sex or the age was unknown or where the accused-victim relationship was unknown. Due to relatively small counts, data for homicide, other violations causing death and attempted murder are not shown in this table. Percentages may not total 100% due to rounding. In cases of domestic violence, every Canadian jurisdiction has implemented some form of pro-charging policies. The particular parameters of these pro-charging policies can vary regionally. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.

Date modified:: 2019-12-12

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Table 2.3
Victims of police-reported intimate partner and non-intimate partner violence, by victim sex, type of violation and clearance status, Canada, 2018

Table 2.3 Victims of police-reported intimate partner and non-intimate partner violence, by victim sex, type of violation and clearance status, Canada, 2018

Table 2.3
Victims of police-reported intimate partner and non-intimate partner violence, by victim sex, type of violation and clearance status, Canada, 2018