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suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act
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Includes online sexual violations against children and other online sexual offences where the victim was identified as being aged 17 years or younger on the first recorded date of the incident.
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Other online sexual offences against children is a catch all category that encompasses all other sexual violations against children (excluding online child sexual abuse and exploitation material offences) which were facilitated by, or involved the use of, technology.
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Includes incidents with a single victim, where victim gender was known and victim age was 17 years or younger on the first recorded date of the incident. Excludes online child sexual abuse and exploitation material offences because these incidents do not have victim files.
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Excludes victims whose gender was recorded as unknown.
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Based on the victim's age on the first recorded date of the incident. Excludes victims whose age was recorded as unknown.
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Includes biological, step, adoptive and foster parents. Includes all other family members related by blood, marriage (including common-law) or adoption (e.g., siblings, children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews and in-laws).
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Includes current and former legally married spouses, common-law partners and dating partners (i.e., boyfriends and girlfriends), and other intimate partners (e.g., one-night stands). Victims of spousal violence include those aged 15 years and older, and victims of dating violence include those aged 12 years and older.
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Includes neighbours, roommates, reverse authority figures (i.e., student-to-teacher, patient-to-doctor), business relationships and criminal relationships (i.e., relationships based on illegal activities).
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Note: An incident is considered to be an online incident if it was flagged as a cybercrime. An incident is flagged as a cybercrime when the crime targets information and communication technology (ICT), or when the crime used ICT to commit the offence. ICT includes, but is not limited to, the Internet, computers, servers, digital technology, digital telecommunications devices, phones and networks. Crimes committed over text and through messages using social media platforms are also considered cybercrime activity. The data exclude Saint John Police Force. Counts are based on victim records, where the most serious violation against the victim was identified as the cyber violation. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s National Child Exploitation Crime Centre (NCECC) serves as the primary point of contact in Canada for investigations related to the sexual exploitation of children on the Internet. Working in partnership with specialized provincial Internet child exploitation policing units, police services across Canada and internationally, the NCECC forwards suspected cases of online child sexual exploitation (OCSE) to the appropriate police of jurisdiction for investigation. Due to a substantial increase in the volume and complexity of these cases (many of which involve Generative Artificial Intelligence), many police services do not have the resources to investigate all cases forwarded by the NCECC. As a result, these data reflect the number of police-reported investigations for the year, accounting for only a subset of suspected OCSE cases within Canada. The option for police to code victims as “non-binary” in the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Survey was implemented in 2018. In the context of the UCR Survey, the term “non-binary” refers to a person who publicly expresses themselves as neither exclusively male nor exclusively female. Given that small counts of non-binary victims and accused persons may exist, the UCR Survey data available to the public have been recoded with these victims distributed in the “men and boys” or “women and girls” categories based on the regional distribution of victims’ gender. This recoding ensures the protection of the confidentiality and privacy of victims. In some incidents, the victim was 17 years or younger when the victimization began, but was an adult when the victimization ended. Victim age was recoded to the age when the victimization began. Percent calculations exclude incidents where victim gender, victim age or the relationship between the victim and the accused was unknown. Percentages may not total 100% due to rounding.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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