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Clients served by victim service providers, by sex of victim and type of crime, Canada, May 24, 20121

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Clients served by victim service providers, by sex of victim and type of crime, Canada, May 24, 20121
Table summary
This table presents the number of clients served by victim service providers on "snapshot day", May 24, 2012 by sex and type of crime. The row headers provide information by type of crime or offence. The column headers provide information on the number and percent of clients for males, females, unknown sex and total.
Type of crime Males Females Unknown sex Total
  number percent number percent number percent number percent
Violent offences 1,632 69 5,835 84 219 69 7,686 80
Homicide 126 5 179 3 3 1 308 3
Other offences causing death 2 47 2 90 1 0 0 137 1
Sexual assault 356 15 2,105 30 37 12 2,498 26
by spouse, ex-spouse, intimate partner 55 2 407 6 6 2 468 5
by other family member 156 7 924 13 13 4 1,093 11
by non-family relationship 145 6 774 11 18 6 937 10
Other violent offences 3 1,103 47 3,461 50 179 56 4,743 49
by spouse, ex-spouse, intimate partner 333 14 2,363 34 103 32 2,799 29
by other family member 228 10 544 8 8 3 780 8
by non-family relationship 542 23 554 8 68 21 1,164 12
Other types of incidents 727 31 1,124 16 100 31 1,951 20
Non-violent offences 4 440 19 608 9 60 19 1,108 11
Impaired driving 37 2 29 0 2 1 68 1
Other traffic offences 30 1 39 1 4 1 73 1
Non-criminal incidents 5 173 7 360 5 26 8 559 6
Traffic incidents - undetermined if criminal 10 0 12 0 0 0 22 0
Other incidents - undetermined if criminal 37 2 76 1 8 3 121 1
Unknown type of crime 81 ... 310 ... 636 ... 1,027 ...
Total 2,440 100 7,269 100 955 100 10,664 100
1.
A number of victim service providers in New Brunswick were unable to provide a count of the number of clients served on May 24, 2012 and instead provided a profile of their active caseload on that day. One victim service provider in British Columbia was unable to provide a count of the number of clients served on May 24, 2012 and instead provided a profile of clients served for the month of May, 2012.
2.
Other offences causing death includes impaired driving causing death, dangerous operation of a vehicle causing death, criminal negligence causing death and infanticide.
3.
Other violent offences includes crimes that either cause or threaten to cause harm to an individual.
4.
Non-violent offences includes property crimes and other non-violent Criminal Code offences.
5.
Non-criminal incidents include other traumatic events such as natural disasters, suicides, and drowning.
Note(s):
Percentages may not add to 100% due to rounding, and do not include “Unknown type of crime” in their calculation.
Source(s):
Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Victim Services Survey 2011/2012.
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