Table 5
Child and youth victims of violence by method of violence
causing injury and sex of victim, reported to a subset of police services, 2008
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Method of violence | Total | Sex of victim | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Female | Male | |||||
number | percent | number | percent | number | percent | |
Total violent violations | 75,333 | 100 | 36,864 | 100 | 38,469 | 100 |
No weapon 1 | 42,632 | 57 | 22,127 | 60 | 20,505 | 53 |
Physical force 2 | 24,504 | 33 | 11,552 | 31 | 12,952 | 34 |
Weapons - total | 8,197 | 11 | 3,185 | 9 | 5,012 | 13 |
Firearm 3 | 568 | 1 | 139 | 0 | 429 | 1 |
Knife/other cutting instrument 4 | 1,171 | 2 | 328 | 1 | 843 | 2 |
Club, blunt instrument 5 | 949 | 1 | 272 | 1 | 677 | 2 |
Other weapon 6 | 3,215 | 4 | 1,152 | 3 | 2,063 | 5 |
Unknown 7 | 2,294 | 3 | 1,294 | 4 | 1,000 | 3 |
Physical assault - total | 41,926 | 100 | 17,339 | 100 | 24,587 | 100 |
No weapon 1 | 15,872 | 38 | 6,572 | 38 | 9,300 | 38 |
Physical force 2 | 19,850 | 47 | 8,694 | 50 | 11,156 | 45 |
Weapons - total | 6,204 | 15 | 2,073 | 12 | 4,131 | 17 |
Firearm 3 | 470 | 1 | 120 | 1 | 350 | 1 |
Knife/other cutting instrument 4 | 924 | 2 | 254 | 1 | 670 | 3 |
Club, blunt instrument 5 | 869 | 2 | 255 | 1 | 614 | 2 |
Other weapon 6 | 2,972 | 7 | 1,063 | 6 | 1,909 | 8 |
Unknown 7 | 969 | 2 | 381 | 2 | 588 | 2 |
Sexual assault - total | 13,641 | 100 | 11,141 | 100 | 2,500 | 100 |
No weapon 1 | 9,887 | 72 | 8,042 | 72 | 1,845 | 74 |
Physical force 2 | 2,800 | 21 | 2,356 | 21 | 444 | 18 |
Weapons - total | 954 | 7 | 743 | 7 | 211 | 8 |
Firearm 3 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Knife/other cutting instrument 4 | 19 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Club, blunt instrument 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Other weapon 6 | 52 | 0 | 40 | 0 | 12 | 0 |
Unknown 7 | 879 | 6 | 683 | 6 | 196 | 8 |
Other violent violations - total | 19,766 | 100 | 8,384 | 100 | 11,382 | 100 |
No weapon 1 | 16,873 | 85 | 7,513 | 90 | 9,360 | 82 |
Physical force 2 | 1,854 | 9 | 502 | 6 | 1,352 | 12 |
Weapons - total | 1,039 | 5 | 369 | 4 | 670 | 6 |
Firearm 3 | 94 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 78 | 1 |
Knife/other cutting instrument 4 | 228 | 1 | 57 | 1 | 171 | 2 |
Club, blunt instrument 5 | 80 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 63 | 1 |
Other weapon 6 | 191 | 1 | 49 | 1 | 142 | 1 |
Unknown 7 | 446 | 2 | 230 | 3 | 216 | 2 |
No weapon was involved, or no injury was caused.
The use of body strength and/or action that
is used to cause bodily injury or death (ie. choking, punching, pushing).
Firearms include fully automatic firearms,
sawed-off rifles, handguns, rifles and other firearm like weapons.
Includes knives and other cutting/piercing
instrument that would cut or pierce.
Includes any tool or article that is used to
cause injury using a hitting or bludgeoning action.
Other weapons might include motor vehicles,
poison and other objects that may be used for strangulation.
There is no indication of what type of weapon
caused an injury to the victim.
Note(s):
Percentages may not add up to 100% due to rounding. Includes victims
under 18 years of age. Excludes incidents where the age and/or sex
of the victim was unknown. The Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey
collected data from 155 police services, representing approximately 98%
of the Canadian population in 2008.
Source(s):
Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based
Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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