Table 3.6
Victims of police-reported intimate partner violence, by clearance status and type of intimate partner relationship, Canada, 2011

Table 3.6 Victims of police-reported intimate partner violence, by clearance status and type of intimate partner relationship, Canada, 2011
Table summary
This table displays the results of table 3.6 victims of police-reported intimate partner violence. The information is grouped by type of incident clearance status (appearing as row headers), victims of spousal violence, victims of dating violence and total victims of intimate partner violence, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of incident clearance status Victims of spousal violenceNote 1 Victims of dating violenceNote 2 Total victims of intimate partner violence
number percent number percent number percent
Not clearedNote 3 4,905 11 7,275 14 12,180 12
Cleared by charge 33,283 72 36,021 71 69,304 71
Cleared otherwise 8,229 18 7,738 15 15,967 16
Complainant requests charges not be laid 3,527 8 4,037 8 7,564 8
Reasons beyond the control of department 2,947 6 726 1 3,673 4
Departmental discretion 1,486 3 2,659 5 4,145 4
OtherNote 4 269 1 316 1 585 1
Total 46,417 100 51,034 100 97,451 100
Note 1.

Spousal violence refers to violence committed by legally married, separated, divorced, and common-law partners. Includes victims aged 15 to 89. Victims aged 90 years and older are excluded from analyses due to instances of miscoding of unknown age within this age category.

Note 2.

Dating partner violence refers to violence committed by boyfriends/girlfriends (current and previous), and other intimate partners. Includes victims aged 15 to 89. Victims aged 90 years and older are excluded from analyses due to instances of miscoding of unknown age within this age category.

Note 3.

'Not cleared' refers to incidents where an accused person has not been identified in connection with the incident.

Note 4.

'Cleared by other means' includes suicide of accused, death of accused, death of witness/complainant, committal of accused to mental hospital, accused in foreign country, accused involved in other incidents, accused already sentenced, and diversionary programs.

Note: In cases of domestic violence, every Canadian jurisdiction has implemented some form of pro-charging policies. The particular parameters of these pro-charging policies can vary regionally. Excludes incidents where the sex and/or age of victim was unknown and where the relationship between the victim and the accused was unknown.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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