Table 2.3.1 Number and proportion of senior victims of violent crime by sex and relationship of accused to victim, reported to a subset of police departments, 2003

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Table 2.3.1
Number and proportion of senior victims of violent crime¹ by sex and relationship of accused to victim, reported to a subset of police departments, 2003
Relationship of victim to accused	Total		Females		Males
Relationship of victim to accused	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent
Total violence against seniors	3,978	100.0	1,830	100.0	2,148	100.0
Total family	1,141	29.0	714	39.0	427	20.0
Adult child	380	10.0	237	13.0	143	7.0
Current spouse²	326	8.0	240	13.0	86	4.0
Sibling	151	4.0	94	5.0	57	3.0
Extended family³	149	4.0	76	4.0	73	3.0
Ex-spouse	46	1.0	22	1.0	24	1.0
Parent	89	2.0	45	2.0	44	2.0
Total non-family	2,504	63.0	987	54.0	1,517	71.0
Stranger	1,334	34.0	563	31.0	771	36.0
Casual acquaintance	763	19.0	283	15.0	480	22.0
Other non-family	407	10.0	141	8.0	266	13.0
Unknown⁴	333	8.0	129	7.0	204	9.0
1. Violent crime includes violations causing death, attempting the commission of a capital crime, sexual assaults, assaults, violations resulting in the deprivation of freedom, and other violations involving violence of the threat of violence.
2. Current spouse includes legally married and common-law partners. Siblings includes natural, step, half, foster or adopted brother or sister.
3. Extended family inlcudes all others releated to the victim either by blood or by marriage.
4. Unknown includes cases where the relationship between the victim and the accused is unknown.
Note: Data are not nationally representative. Based on data from 122 police departments representing 61% of the national volume of crime in 2003.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incidence-based Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR2) Survey. Table 6.1 in Family Violence in Canada: A Statistical Profile, Catalogue no. 85-224.