Table 3
Victims of crimes against the person by sex of the accused and relationship of the accused to the victim, reported to a subset of police services, 2005
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Relationship of accused to victim | Proportion of victims where the accused was | |||
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Female | Male | |||
Youth | Adult | Youth | Adult | |
percentage of victims | ||||
Total | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
Family members | 20 | 38 | 19 | 37 |
Total spouse | 1 | 23 | 1 | 26 |
Spouse | 1 | 15 | 0 | 18 |
Ex-spouse | 0 | 8 | 0 | 8 |
Total other family | 19 | 15 | 18 | 11 |
Parent1 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 4 |
Child1 | 11 | 2 | 8 | 2 |
Sibling2 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 3 |
Extended family3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
Friends/acquaintances | 67 | 45 | 63 | 41 |
Authority figure | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
Current or ex-boy/girlfriend | 3 | 10 | 3 | 11 |
Friend | 7 | 4 | 5 | 3 |
Business relationship | 9 | 6 | 7 | 6 |
Criminal relationship | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Casual acquaintance | 45 | 24 | 44 | 18 |
Stranger | 13 | 17 | 19 | 22 |
0 true zero or a value rounded to zero
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR2) Survey. |
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