Table 3.3
Senior victims of police-reported family and non-family violence, by victim sex, type of violation and clearance status, Canada, 2018


Table 3.3
Senior victims of police-reported family and non-family violence, by victim sex, type of violation and clearance status, Canada, 2018
Table summary
This table displays the results of Senior victims of police-reported family and non-family violence. The information is grouped by Type of violation and clearance status (appearing as row headers), Family violence, Non-family violence, Total victims, Female victims and Male victims, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of violation and clearance status Family violence Non-family violence Total victimsTable 3.3 Note 1
Female victims Male victims Total victims Female victims Male victims Total victims
number percent number percent number percent number percent number percent number percent percent
Sexual assaultTable 3.3 Note 2
Not cleared 24 42 2 67 26 43 187 45 24 63 211 47 46
Insufficient evidence to proceedTable 3.3 Note 3 8 14 1 33 9 15 53 13 5 13 58 13 13
OtherTable 3.3 Note 4 16 28 1 33 17 28 134 32 19 50 153 34 33
Cleared by chargeTable 3.3 Note 5 20 35 1 33 21 35 74 18 5 13 79 18 20
Cleared otherwise 13 23 0 0 13 22 152 37 9 24 161 36 34
Victim/complainant requests no further action (accused identified)Table 3.3 Note 6 8 14 0 0 8 13 65 16 4 11 69 15 15
Reasons beyond the control of department 2 4 0 0 2 3 13 3 0 0 13 3 3
Departmental discretion 2 4 0 0 2 3 70 17 5 13 75 17 15
OtherTable 3.3 Note 7 1 2 0 0 1 2 4 1 0 0 4 1 1
TotalTable 3.3 Note 8 57 100 3 100 60 100 413 100 38 100 451 100 100
Physical assaultTable 3.3 Note 9
Not cleared 252 15 194 16 446 16 578 36 1,092 34 1,670 35 28
Insufficient evidence to proceedTable 3.3 Note 3 41 2 36 3 77 3 84 5 130 4 214 4 4
OtherTable 3.3 Note 4 211 13 158 13 369 13 494 31 962 30 1,456 30 24
Cleared by chargeTable 3.3 Note 5 941 57 590 50 1,531 54 421 26 1,217 38 1,638 34 41
Cleared otherwise 451 27 406 34 857 30 614 38 892 28 1,506 31 31
Victim/complainant requests no further action (accused identified)Table 3.3 Note 6 286 17 277 23 563 20 225 14 502 16 727 15 17
Reasons beyond the control of department 57 3 42 4 99 3 56 3 72 2 128 3 3
Departmental discretion 83 5 74 6 157 6 301 19 280 9 581 12 10
OtherTable 3.3 Note 7 25 2 13 1 38 1 32 2 38 1 70 1 1
TotalTable 3.3 Note 8 1,644 100 1,190 100 2,834 100 1,613 100 3,201 100 4,814 100 100
Other offences involving violence or the threat of violenceTable 3.3 Note 10
Not cleared 152 24 108 23 260 23 515 47 751 44 1,266 45 39
Insufficient evidence to proceedTable 3.3 Note 3 19 3 16 3 35 3 65 6 130 8 195 7 6
OtherTable 3.3 Note 4 133 21 92 19 225 20 450 41 621 36 1,071 38 33
Cleared by chargeTable 3.3 Note 5 342 53 237 49 579 52 407 37 628 36 1,035 37 41
Cleared otherwise 150 23 134 28 284 25 177 16 345 20 522 18 20
Victim/complainant requests no further action (accused identified)Table 3.3 Note 6 95 15 85 18 180 16 93 8 215 12 308 11 12
Reasons beyond the control of department 15 2 16 3 31 3 23 2 45 3 68 2 3
Departmental discretion 36 6 29 6 65 6 51 5 62 4 113 4 5
OtherTable 3.3 Note 7 4 1 4 1 8 1 10 1 23 1 33 1 1
TotalTable 3.3 Note 8 644 100 479 100 1,123 100 1,099 100 1,724 100 2,823 100 100
Note 1

Includes senior victims of family and non-family violence.

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Note 2

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 3

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.

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Note 4

Includes incidents that are still open and under investigation, and incidents where the victim/complainant declines to proceed (no accused identified).

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Note 5

Includes cleared by charge, charges recommended and charges recommended but all declined by Crown.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Note 9

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 10

Includes all other violent violations not otherwise listed; however, homicide, other violations causing death and attempted murder are excluded.

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Note: Family violence refers to violence committed by spouses (legally married, separated, divorced and common-law), children (biological, step, adopted and foster), siblings (biological, step, half, adopted and foster) and extended family members (e.g., grandchildren, nephews, nieces, cousins and in-laws). Victims refer to those aged 65 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.
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