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Table 1.5
Victims of spousal violence by offence type and sex of victim, reported to a subset of police services, 2006
Victims of spousal violence by offence type and sex of victim, reported to a subset of police services, 2006
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| Offence type | Total | Sex of victim | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Female | Male | |||||
| number | percent | number | percent | number | percent | |
| Homicide/attempts | 155 | 0 | 110 | 0 | 45 | 1 |
| Sexual assault1 | 633 | 2 | 622 | 2 | 11 | 0 |
| Major assault (levels 2 & 3)2 | 5,555 | 14 | 4,047 | 13 | 1,508 | 23 |
| Common assault (level 1) | 23,680 | 61 | 19,749 | 62 | 3,931 | 60 |
| Criminal harassment | 3,053 | 8 | 2,705 | 8 | 348 | 5 |
| Uttering threats | 4,283 | 11 | 3,663 | 11 | 620 | 9 |
| Other violent offences3 | 1,214 | 3 | 1,132 | 4 | 82 | 1 |
| Total offences | 38,573 | 100 | 32,028 | 100 | 6,545 | 100 |
| 0 true zero or a value rounded to zero | ||||||
| 1. Sexual assault is classified into either one of three levels according to the seriousness of the incident or as other sexual crimes. Level 1, sexual assault, is the category of least physical injury to the victim; level 2 includes sexual assault with a weapon, threats to use a weapon, or causing bodily harm; and level 3 includes aggravated sexual assault which wounds, maims, disfigures or endangers the life of the victim. | ||||||
| 2. Major assault includes assault with a weapon or causing bodily harm (level 2) and aggravated assault, is defined as assault that wounds, maims, disfigures or endangers the life of the victim (level 3). | ||||||
| 3. Other violent offences include robbery, unlawfully causing bodily harm, discharge firearm with intent, assault against peace-public officer, criminal negligence causing bodily harm, other assaults, kidnapping, hostage-taking, explosives causing death/bodily harm, arson, and other violent violations. | ||||||
| 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. 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. | ||||||
