Table 4.5
Family-related homicides against children and youth
(0 to 17 years), by age group and cause of death, Canada, 2000 to 2009
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| Cause of death | Victim's age group | Total | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Less than 1 year | 1 to 3 years | 4 to 6 years | 7 to 11 years | 12 to 17 years | ||||||||
| number | percent | number | percent | number | percent | number | percent | number | percent | number | percent | |
| Strangulation, suffocation or drowning | 23 | 27.1 | 17 | 18.5 | 8 | 20.5 | 8 | 25.0 | 15 | 22.4 | 71 | 22.5 |
| Beating | 21 | 24.7 | 35 | 38.0 | 6 | 15.4 | 3 | 9.4 | 4 | 6.0 | 69 | 21.9 |
| Stabbing | 5 | 5.9 | 14 | 15.2 | 7 | 17.9 | 10 | 31.3 | 21 | 31.3 | 57 | 18.1 |
| Shaken Baby Syndrome 1 | 29 | 34.1 | 12 | 13.0 | … | … | … | … | … | … | 41 | 13.0 |
| Shooting | 1 | 1.2 | 6 | 6.5 | 7 | 17.9 | 8 | 25.0 | 18 | 26.9 | 40 | 12.7 |
| Poisoning or lethal injection | 0 | 0.0 | 3 | 3.3 | 8 | 20.5 | 2 | 6.3 | 4 | 6.0 | 17 | 5.4 |
| Fire (smoke inhalation, burns) | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 2.2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 3.0 | 4 | 1.3 |
| Other 2 | 6 | 7.1 | 3 | 3.3 | 3 | 7.7 | 1 | 3.1 | 3 | 4.5 | 16 | 5.1 |
| Unknown | 6 | … | 1 | … | 1 | … | 3 | … | 0 | … | 11 | … |
| Total | 91 | 100.0 | 93 | 100.0 | 40 | 100.0 | 35 | 100.0 | 67 | 100.0 | 326 | 100.0 |
Shaken Baby Syndrome refers to homicides committed
against a baby (under the age of three years) where the primary cause of death
resulted from being shaken, tossed or thrown.
Includes causes of death not otherwise stated.
Examples include exposure/hypothermia, deaths caused by motor vehicles, starvation,
heat, etc.
Note(s):
Family-related homicides are homicides committed by a spouse, parent,
child, sibling or other members related by blood, marriage or adoption. Excludes
homicides where the sex of the victim was unknown. Percentages exclude homicides
in which the cause of death was reported by police as unknown. Percentages
may not add up to 100% due to rounding.
Source(s):
Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Homicide
Survey.
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