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Table 1.10
Method of violence causing the most serious injury to the victim in spousal violence incidents, reported to a subset of police services, 2006
Method of violence causing the most serious injury to the victim in spousal violence incidents, reported to a subset of police services, 2006
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| Type of weapon | Total | Sex of victim | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Female | Male | |||||
| number | percent | number | percent | number | percent | |
| No weapon1 | 17,673 | 46 | 14,782 | 46 | 2,891 | 44 |
| Physical force | 17,216 | 45 | 14,719 | 46 | 2,497 | 38 |
| Weapons | 2,534 | 7 | 1,562 | 5 | 972 | 15 |
| Firearms | 40 | 0 | 34 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| Knife, other piercing cutting instrument | 819 | 2 | 429 | 1 | 390 | 6 |
| Club/blunt instrument | 476 | 1 | 318 | 1 | 158 | 2 |
| Other weapon2 | 1,199 | 3 | 781 | 2 | 418 | 6 |
| Unknown3 | 1,150 | 3 | 965 | 3 | 185 | 3 |
| Total victims of spousal violence | 38,573 | 100 | 32,028 | 100 | 6,545 | 100 |
| 0 true zero or a value rounded to zero | ||||||
| 1. The weapon involved did not cause physical injury or no weapon was involved in the incident. | ||||||
| 2. Includes other types of weapons such as explosives, fire, motor vehicle or any device used to poison. | ||||||
| 3. There was no indication of what type of weapon caused an injury to the victim. | ||||||
| Notes: Percentages may not add up to 100% due to rounding. Excludes incidents where the sex and/or the age of the victim was unknown. Includes victims aged 15 to 98. Spousal violence refers to violence committed by legally married, common-law, separated and divorced partners. Excludes Toronto due to unavailability of disaggregated data on weapon use. 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. | ||||||
| Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR2) Survey. | ||||||
