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Table 4.4
Child and youth victims (0 to 17 years) of police-reported family violence, by sex of the victim and type of offence, Canada, 2014 Table 4.4
Child and youth victims (0 to 17 years) of police-reported family violence, by sex of the victim and type of offence, Canada, 2014

Table 4.4
Child and youth victims (0 to 17 years) of police-reported family violence, by sex of the victim and type of offence, Canada, 2014
Table summary
This table displays the results of Child and youth victims (0 to 17 years) of police-reported family violence. The information is grouped by Type of offence (appearing as row headers), Female victims, Male victims and Total, calculated using number and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence	Female victims		Male victims		Total
Type of offence	number	rate^Note 1	number	rate^Note 1	number	rate^Note 1
Violations causing death^Note 2	14	0.4	14	0.4	28	0.4
Attempted murder^Note 3	14	0.4	10	0.3	24	0.3
Sexual offences^Note 4	4,080	121.8	1,005	28.5	5,085	73.9
Physical assault	4,558	136.0	4,693	132.9	9,251	134.4
Major assault (levels 2 and 3)^Note 5	876	26.1	946	26.8	1,822	26.5
Common assault (level 1)^Note 6	3,647	108.8	3,708	105.0	7,355	106.9
Other assaults^Note 7	35	1.0	39	1.1	74	1.1
Kidnapping/abduction	196	5.8	191	5.4	387	5.6
Other violent crimes^Note 8	825	24.6	782	22.2	1,607	23.4
Total	9,687	289.1	6,695	189.7	16,382	238.1
Note 1. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population of children and youth. Populations based upon July 1st estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2. Violations causing death include first degree murder, second degree murder, manslaughter, infanticide, criminal negligence, and other related violations causing death. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3. Attempted murder includes conspiracy to commit murder. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4. Sexual offences include sexual assault levels 1, 2 and 3 and other sexual violations, including child-specific offences, such as luring a child and sexual exploitation. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5. Level 2 assault is defined as assault with a weapon or causing bodily harm and level 3 assault is defined as assault that wounds, maims, disfigures or endangers the life of the victim. Return to note 5 referrer Note 6. Level 1 assault is the least serious form of assault and includes pushing, slapping, punching and face-to-face verbal threats. Return to note 6 referrer Note 7. Includes unlawfully causing bodily harm, discharge firearm with intent, using firearm or imitation firearm in the commission of an offence, pointing a firearm, assault against a peace or public officer, and other assaults. Return to note 7 referrer Note 8. Other violent crimes include criminal harassment, uttering threats, indecent or harassing phone calls, robbery, extortion, arson - disregard for human life, intimidation of a justice system participant or journalist, intimation of a non-justice participant, explosives causing death/bodily harm, hostage taking, and other violent violations. Return to note 8 referrer Note: Family violence refers to violence committed by parents (biological, adoptive, step, foster), siblings (biological, adopted, step, half, foster), extended family and spouses. Excludes incidents where the sex and/or age of victim was unknown and where the relationship between the victim and the accused was unknown. Excludes spousal victims under the age of 15 years. Excludes a small number of victims in Quebec whose age was unknown but was miscoded as 0. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.

Date modified:: 2016-01-21