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Skip module menu and go to content. Vicitimization and offending in Canada's territories 2004 Online catalogue Other issues of the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics Profile Series Victimization and offending in Canada’s territories 2004 in PDF version More information Bibliography Methodology Tables and figures Findings Highlights Main page of Victimization and offending in Canada’s territories 2004 Victimization and Offending in Canada’s Territories 2004

Highlights

  • According to the 2004 General Social Survey (GSS), residents of the territories were three times more likely than provincial residents to experience a violent victimization such as sexual assault, robbery or physical assault (315 versus 106 incidents per 1,000 population).
  • Residents of the North experienced higher levels of spousal violence than their counterparts in the provinces. Approximately 12% of northern residents reported being the victim of some form of violence at the hands of a current and/or previous spouse or common-law partner in the 5 years preceding the survey. This compares to 7% of the population in the provinces.
  • Residents of Nunavut were far more likely to have been victims of spousal violence (22%) than residents of the Northwest Territories (11%) and the Yukon Territory (9%).
  • Similar to findings from the victimization survey, police-reported crime rates in the territories were substantially higher than rates in the rest of Canada. Specifically, in 2005, crime rates in the North were over four times higher than rates in the provinces (33,186 compared to 7,679 incidents per 100,000 population).
  • In 2005, the Northwest Territories had the highest police-reported crime rate among the three territories at 41,245 incidents per 100,000 population. This rate was 1.3 times higher than the rate in Nunavut, 1.8 times higher than that in Yukon and nearly three times higher than that in Saskatchewan, the province with the highest provincial crime rate (14,320).
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