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Table 1.1
Number of violent crimes reported to a subset of police services, by sex of victim and relationship to accused, 2006

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Relationship of
accused to victim		 Total Sex of victims
Female Male
percent number percent number percent number
Total victims of violent crime 320,098 100 161,442 100 158,656 100
Total family 70,339 22 50,898 32 19,441 12
Total spouse 38,573 12 32,028 20 6,545 4
Current spouse1 26,567 8 22,114 14 4,453 3
Ex-spouse2 12,006 4 9,914 6 2,092 1
Total other family 31,766 10 18,870 12 12,896 8
Parent3 10,273 3 6,044 4 4,229 3
Child3 5,999 2 3,901 2 2,098 1
Sibling4 7,685 2 4,440 3 3,245 2
Extended family5 7,809 2 4,485 3 3,324 2
Total friends/acquaintances 113,209 35 59,030 37 54,179 34
Boyfriend/girlfriend 16,532 5 13,681 8 2,851 2
Ex-boyfriend/girlfriend 10,403 3 8,727 5 1,676 1
Close friend 9,571 3 4,709 3 4,862 3
Business relationship 12,629 4 4,723 3 7,906 5
Casual acquaintance 58,860 18 25,061 16 33,799 21
Criminal relationship 1,692 1 372 0 1,320 1
Authority figure 3,522 1 1,757 1 1,765 1
Stranger 73,799 23 22,807 14 50,992 32
Unknown6 62,751 20 28,707 18 34,044 21
0 true zero or a value rounded to zero
1. Current spouse includes legally married and common-law partners
2. Ex-spouse includes separated and divorced partners.
3. Includes some cases where age or the relationship to the accused may have been miscoded.
4. Sibling includes natural, step, half, foster or adopted brother or sister.
5. Extended family includes others related to the victim either by blood or marriage, e.g., aunts, uncles, cousins and in-laws.
6. Unknown includes cases where the relationship between the victim and the accused is unknown.
Notes: Percentages may not total 100% due to rounding. Excludes incidents where the sex and/or age of the victim was unknown. Data are not nationally representative. Based on data from 149 police services representing approximately 90% of the population of Canada in 2006. Hamilton Police Service is excluded from the analysis due to data quality of the relationship variable. Current spouse and ex-spouse categories include victims aged 15 to 98. Violent crime includes violations causing death, attempted murder, sexual assaults, assaults, robbery, criminal harassment, uttering threats and other violations involving violence or the threat of violence.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR2) Survey.
Date Modified: 2009-08-21

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