Table 2
All other contacts with police among victims of homicide, by gender-related status and type of violent offence, Canada, 2009 to 2022

Table 2
All other contacts with police among victims of homicide, by gender-related status and type of violent offence, Canada, 2009 to 2022 Table summary
The information is grouped by Type of violent offence (appearing as row headers), Gender-related homicides of women and girls1, Non-gender-related homicides of women and girls, Homicide of men and boys and Total, calculated using number, percent, number, percent, number, percent, number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of violent offence Gender-related homicides of women and girls Table 2 Note 1 Non-gender-related homicides of women and girls Homicide of men and boys Total
number percent number percent number percent number percent
Note 1

Gender-related homicides of women and girls are solved homicides committed by a man or boy 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 of women and girls are all those that do not contain the above qualifiers but involve a woman or girl as the victim and have a known accused. The homicide of men and boys exclude unsolved incidents.

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Note 2

Includes sexual assault (level 1, 2 and 3), sexual violations against children (for example, sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching, sexual exploitation) and other sexual violations.

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Note 3

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 4

Includes robbery and robbery to steal a firearm.

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Note 5

Includes all other violent violations not otherwise listed.

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Note: Based on victims of homicide who had at least one prior contact with police as a victim of a violent offence. Offence categories are not mutually exclusive and reflect the most serious violation against the victim. A homicide victim could have been victims of varying violent crimes in separate police contact incidents. 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 where gender was coded as unknown.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Gender-related homicide record linkage file.
Sexual offences Table 2 Note 2 68 6.3 48 8.2 18 0.7 134 3.1
Physical assault offences 846 78.7 457 78.4 2,181 82.4 3,484 80.9
Assault level 1 640 59.5 339 58.1 1,174 44.4 2,153 50.0
Assault level 2 and 3 192 17.9 107 18.4 961 36.3 1,260 29.3
Other assaults Table 2 Note 3 14 1.3 11 1.9 46 1.7 71 1.6
Other offences involving violence or the threat of violence 161 15.0 78 13.4 447 16.9 686 15.9
Robbery Table 2 Note 4 28 2.6 14 2.4 167 6.3 209 4.9
Criminal harassment 21 2.0 8 1.4 14 0.5 43 1.0
Uttering threats 72 6.7 40 6.9 211 8.0 323 7.5
Other Table 2 Note 5 40 3.7 16 2.7 55 2.1 111 2.6
Total 1,075 100.0 583 100.0 2,646 100.0 4,304 100.0
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