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Table 1.12
Trends in clearance rates for spousal violence incidents, reported to a subset of police services, 1998 to 2006

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Incident clearance rates 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
percent
Total cleared 92 94 94 95 95 95 94 93 92
Cleared by charge 73 73 73 79 80 78 76 76 73
Cleared otherwise total 19 22 20 16 15 16 18 18 19
Complainant declined to lay charges 13 16 15 10 9 8 9 8 9
Other 1 6 6 6 6 6 8 10 10 10
Not cleared 8 6 6 5 5 5 6 7 8
Total 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
1. Other includes departmental discretion, reason beyond control of department, suicide of accused, death of accused, death of witness/complainant, committal of accused to mentalhospital, accused in foreign country, accused involved in other incidents, accused already sentenced, and diversionary program.
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 89. Spousalviolence refers to violence committed by legally married, common-law, separated and divorced partners. Data are based on a non-representative sample of 63 police servicesacross Canada, representing 53% of the population of Canada in 2006.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR2) Trend Database.
Date Modified: 2009-08-21

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