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Table 3.1
Senior (65 years and over) victims of violent crime by sex and relationship to accused, reported to a subset of police services, 2006
Senior (65 years and over) victims of violent crime by sex and relationship to accused, reported to a subset of police services, 2006
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| Relationship of accused to victim | Total | Female | Male | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| number | rate | number | rate | number | rate | |
| Known to the victim | 3,359 | 83 | 1,685 | 74 | 1,674 | 96 |
| Strangers | 1,618 | 40 | 666 | 29 | 952 | 54 |
| Total family | 1,716 | 43 | 1,069 | 47 | 647 | 37 |
| Spouse/ex-spouse | 513 | 13 | 375 | 16 | 138 | 8 |
| Parent | 137 | 3 | 67 | 3 | 70 | 4 |
| Child | 544 | 14 | 327 | 14 | 217 | 12 |
| Sibling | 227 | 6 | 136 | 6 | 91 | 5 |
| Extended family1 | 295 | 7 | 164 | 7 | 131 | 7 |
| Friends, acquaintances, others | 1,643 | 41 | 616 | 27 | 1,027 | 59 |
| Friend or acquaintance2 | 1,365 | 34 | 536 | 23 | 829 | 47 |
| Business relationship | 262 | 6 | 76 | 3 | 186 | 11 |
| Criminal relationship | 16 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 12 | 1 |
| Total violence against older adults | 4,977 | 123 | 2,351 | 103 | 2,626 | 150 |
| 0 true zero or value rounded to zero | ||||||
| 1. Extended family includes aunts, uncles, cousins, sisters/brothers-in-law, etc. | ||||||
| 2. Includes friends, boy/girlfriends, ex-boy/girlfriends, authority figures and casual acquaintances. | ||||||
| Notes: Excludes incidents where the victim's sex and/or victim's age and/or relationship of the accused to the victim was unknown. Data are not nationally representative. Based on data from 149 police services representing approximately 90% of the population in Canada in 2006. Hamilton Police Service is excluded from the analysis due to data quality of the relationship variable. Includes family violence and non-family violence against victims aged 65 years and over. Rate per 100,000 population for the geographic areas policed by the UCR2 respondents, based on populations provided by Demography Division, Statistics Canada. | ||||||
| Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR2) Survey. | ||||||
