Table 3
All other contacts with police among persons accused of homicide, by gender-related status and victim characteristic for violent crimes, Canada, 2009 to 2022

Table 3
All other contacts with police among persons accused of homicide, by gender-related status and victim characteristic for violent crimes, 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 victim characteristic for violent crimes, Canada, 2009 to 2022. The information is grouped by Incident characteristic (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).
Incident characteristic Gender-related homicides of women and girls Non-gender-related homicides Total
number percent number percent number percent
Note ...

not applicable

Note 1

Includes incidents that did not involve the use of a weapon or physical force as well as those in which a weapon or physical force was used but no visible physical injury was noted by police.

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Note 2

Refers to injuries that required no professional medical treatment or only some first aid (e.g., bandage, ice).

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Note 3

Refers to injuries that required professional medical attention at the scene or transportation to a medical facility, or injuries that resulted in death.

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Note 4

Includes no threat, physical force or weapon.

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Note 5

Includes threats that are construed to imply that death or injury is possible.

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Note 6

Includes other piercing or cutting instruments, such as hatchets, razor blades and arrows.

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Note 7

Includes other types of weapons such as explosives, rope, fire, motor vehicles, poison and weapons not otherwise classified.

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Note 8

The history of victimization counts each victim only once and captures police contacts that occurred prior to the homicide. If one victim was involved in multiple police contacts, the one perpetrated by a person accused of a gender-related homicide is counted.

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Note 9

Includes current spouses, common-law partners, dating partners (i.e., boyfriends) and other intimate partners (e.g., one-night stands, mutual sexual attraction, extramarital affairs).

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Note 10

Includes former spouses, common-law partners, dating partners (i.e., ex-boyfriends).

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Note 11

Includes all other family members that are not intimate partners (e.g., biological, step, adoptive and foster parents, children, siblings as well as extended family members related to the accused by blood or marriage).

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Note 12

Includes all other relationship types not otherwise specified.

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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 for a violent offence with a victim record. 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. Percent calculations exclude incidents where the level of injury, presence of weapon and closest accused-victim relationship was unknown. 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.
Level of injury  
No physical injury Table 3 Note 1 1,107 41.3 7,431 43.1 8,538 42.9
Physical injury 1,571 58.7 9,796 56.9 11,367 57.1
Minor physical injury Table 3 Note 2 1,280 47.8 8,085 46.9 9,365 47.0
Major physical injury Table 3 Note 3 291 10.9 1,711 9.9 2,002 10.1
Unknown 117 ... not applicable 833 ... not applicable 950 ... not applicable
Total 2,795 100.0 18,060 100.0 20,855 100.0
Weapon present  
No weapon Table 3 Note 4 77 3.2 409 2.5 486 2.6
Threats Table 3 Note 5 160 6.6 1,034 6.3 1,194 6.3
Physical force 1,356 55.7 8,652 52.8 10,008 53.2
Weapon present 841 34.6 6,291 38.4 7,132 37.9
Firearm 163 6.7 1,377 8.4 1,540 8.2
Knife or other piercing instrument Table 3 Note 6 343 14.1 2,441 14.9 2,784 14.8
Club or other blunt instrument 59 2.4 462 2.8 521 2.8
Other weapon Table 3 Note 7 276 11.3 2,011 12.3 2,287 12.2
Unknown 361 ... not applicable 1,674 ... not applicable 2,035 ... not applicable
Total 2,795 100.0 18,060 100.0 20,855 100.0
History of victimization Table 3 Note 8  
Different victim 1,482 89.7 9,880 99.2 11,362 97.8
Same victim as in homicide 171 10.3 84 0.8 255 2.2
Total prior contacts 1,653 100.0 9,964 100.0 11,617 100.0
Closest accused-victim relationship  
Current intimate partner Table 3 Note 9 531 19.0 2,281 12.6 2,812 13.5
Former intimate partner Table 3 Note 10 223 8.0 914 5.1 1,137 5.5
Other family Table 3 Note 11 462 16.5 1,910 10.6 2,372 11.4
Other relationship Table 3 Note 12 1,577 56.5 12,949 71.7 14,526 69.7
Unknown 2 ... not applicable 6 ... not applicable 8 ... not applicable
Total 2,795 100.0 18,060 100.0 20,855 100.0
Sexual assault occurred  
No sexual assault 2,614 93.5 17,550 97.2 20,164 96.7
Sexual assault occurred 181 6.5 510 2.8 691 3.3
Total 2,795 100.0 18,060 100.0 20,855 100.0
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