Table 2
All other contacts with police among persons accused of homicide, by gender-related status and type of violation, Canada, 2009 to 2022

Table 2
All other contacts with police among persons accused of homicide, by gender-related status and type of violation, Canada, 2009 to 2022 Table summary
This table displays the results of All other contacts with police among persons accused of homicide, by gender-related status and type of violation, Canada, 2009 to 2022. The information is grouped by Type of violation (appearing as row headers), Total, Non-gender-related homicides and Gender-related homicides of women and girls, calculated using percent and number units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of violation Gender-related homicides of women and girls Non-gender-related homicides Total
number percent number percent number percent
Note 0

true zero or a value rounded to zero

Note 1

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

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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

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 a computer, agreement or arrangement (sexual offences against a child) and bestiality (in presence of, or incites, a child).

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Note 4

Includes sexual exploitation of a person with a disability, incest, bestiality (commit, compel or incite a person), voyeurism and non-consensual distribution of intimate images. Also includes sexual offences which occurred prior to January 4, 1983, corrupting the morals of a child, anal intercourse and other sexual violations.

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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 all other violent violations not otherwise listed.

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Note 8

Includes the offences of theft under $5,000 and theft over $5,000.

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Note 9

Includes shoplifting under $5,000 and shoplifting over $5,000.

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Note 10

Includes identity theft and identity fraud.

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Note 11

Other Criminal Code offences include obstruct public/peace officer, offences related to impeding traffic to buy or sell sexual services and other prostitution related offences (i.e., procuring, obtains/communicates with a person under 18 for purposes of sex, other prostitution), counterfeiting, indecent acts, possessing or accessing child pornography, making or distributing child pornography, corrupting morals, trespass at night, uttering threats against property or animals, public incitement of hatred, offences against public order, instruction/commission of act of terrorism, sexual offences, public morals and disorderly conduct; invasion of privacy, offences against the person and reputation, failure to comply with regulations/obligations for medical assistance in dying, offences against the rights of property, fraudulent transactions relating to contacts and trade, wilful and forbidden acts in respect of certain property, offences related to currency, proceeds of crime; attempts, conspires, accessories; instruct offence for criminal organization, participate in activities of criminal organization and all other Criminal Code offences.

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Note 12

Includes offences related to importation and exportation, production, other drug violations as well as offences falling under the Cannabis Act.

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Note 13

Includes the Canada Shipping Act, Customs Act, Excise Act, Immigration & Refugee Protection Act, the Firearms Act and other Federal Statutes.

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Note: Based on unique individuals accused of a gender-related or non-gender-related homicide who had at least one other contact with police. Offence categories are not mutually exclusive. An accused person could be charged with violent crimes, property crimes or other criminal offences in separate police contact incidents. Gender-related homicides of women and girls are solved homicides committed by a male accused who was an intimate partner or family member of the victim, inflicted sexual violence on the victim as part of the killing or killed a victim who was identified as a sex worker. Non-gender-related homicides are all those that do not contain the above qualifiers but have a known accused. If one accused was involved in multiple homicides during the reference period, the gender-related homicide is counted. There may be a small number of homicides included in a given year's total that occurred in previous years. Homicides are counted according to the year in which they are reported to Statistics Canada. Excludes victims and accused where gender was coded as unknown.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Gender-related homicide record linkage file.
Violent offences  
Homicide, other violations causing death and attempted murder Table 2 Note 1 115 4.7 477 3.0 592 3.3
Sexual offences 128 5.2 382 2.4 510 2.8
Sexual assault Table 2 Note 2 105 4.3 300 1.9 405 2.2
Sexual violations against children Table 2 Note 3 17 0.7 66 0.4 83 0.5
Other Table 2 Note 4 6 0.2 16 0.1 22 0.1
Physical assault offences 1,607 65.5 10,604 67.8 12,211 67.5
Level 1 (common assault) 904 36.8 5,490 35.1 6,394 35.3
Level 2 (with a weapon or causing bodily harm) 448 18.2 3,029 19.4 3,477 19.2
Level 3 (aggravated assault) 101 4.1 811 5.2 912 5.0
Other assaults Table 2 Note 5 154 6.3 1,274 8.1 1,428 7.9
Other offences involving violence or the threat of violence 605 24.6 4,184 26.7 4,789 26.5
Robbery Table 2 Note 6 150 6.1 1,650 10.5 1,800 9.9
Extortion 14 0.6 43 0.3 57 0.3
Criminal harassment 53 2.2 203 1.3 256 1.4
Indecent or harassing communications 28 1.1 73 0.5 101 0.6
Uttering threats 270 11.0 1,680 10.7 1,950 10.8
Other Table 2 Note 7 90 3.7 535 3.4 625 3.5
Total 2,455 100.0 15,647 100.0 18,102 100.0
Property offences  
Breaking and entering 259 14.8 2,341 16.5 2,600 16.4
Theft of motor vehicle 105 6.0 1,066 7.5 1,171 7.4
Theft Table 2 Note 8 159 9.1 1,599 11.3 1,758 11.1
Shoplifting Table 2 Note 9 190 10.8 2,178 15.4 2,368 14.9
Possess stolen property 123 7.0 1,445 10.2 1,568 9.9
Fraud 87 5.0 709 5.0 796 5.0
Identity crimes Table 2 Note 10 18 1.0 193 1.4 211 1.3
Mischief 770 43.9 4,475 31.6 5,245 33.0
Arson 43 2.5 142 1.0 185 1.2
Total 1,754 100.0 14,148 100.0 15,902 100.0
Other Criminal Code violations  
Weapon violations 148 5.9 1,731 9.0 1,879 8.6
Failure to comply with order or summons 1,025 40.7 8,396 43.6 9,421 43.3
Disturb the peace 544 21.6 2,404 12.5 2,948 13.6
Failure to appear 203 8.1 1,889 9.8 2,092 9.6
Breach of probation 340 13.5 2,953 15.3 3,293 15.1
Offences against the administration of law and justice 97 3.9 807 4.2 904 4.2
Other Table 2 Note 11 159 6.3 1,059 5.5 1,218 5.6
Total 2,516 100.0 19,239 100.0 21,755 100.0
Controlled Drugs and Substances Act  
Possession 237 72.5 2,060 59.2 2,297 60.3
Trafficking 83 25.4 1,339 38.5 1,422 37.3
Other drug offences Table 2 Note 12 7 2.1 83 2.4 90 2.4
Total 327 100.0 3,482 100.0 3,809 100.0
Other federal statute violations  
Youth Criminal Justice Act 58 67.4 793 81.5 851 80.4
Other federal statutes Table 2 Note 13 28 32.6 180 18.5 208 19.6
Total 86 100.0 973 100.0 1,059 100.0
Traffic violations  
Dangerous operation 39 15.7 336 20.9 375 20.2
Flight from peace officer 13 5.2 209 13.0 222 12.0
Impaired driving 151 60.9 699 43.5 850 45.8
Failure to stop after accident 12 4.8 91 5.7 103 5.5
Operation while prohibited 32 12.9 273 17.0 305 16.4
Other Criminal Code traffic violations 1 0.4 0 0.0 1 0.1
Total 248 100.0 1,608 100.0 1,856 100.0
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