Table 1B
Victims of police-reported violent crime, by offence and weapon causing injury, Canada, 2012

Table 1B
Victims of police-reported violent crime, by offence and weapon causing injury, Canada, 2012
Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of police-reported violent crime. The information is grouped by Offence (appearing as row headers), Firearm, Other weapon, Physical force, No weapon causing injury or no injury, Unknown and Total, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Offence Firearm Other weaponNote 1 Physical force No weapon causing injury or no injuryNote 2 Unknown Total
number percent number percent number percent number percent number percent number percent
Total violent Criminal Code offences 1,325 0.5 24,776 8.7 107,621 37.8 150,731 53.0 4,478 ... 288,931 100
HomicideNote 3 137 33.9 197 48.8 70 17.3 0 0.0 29 ... 433 100
Other violations causing deathNote 4 3 4.2 42 59.2 3 4.2 23 32.4 2 ... 73 100
Attempted murder 147 32.5 196 43.3 26 5.7 84 18.5 4 ... 457 100
Sexual assault, level 3, aggravated 0 0.0 14 14.7 74 77.9 7 7.4 0 ... 95 100
Sexual assault, level 2, weapon or bodily harm 3 1.0 100 34.0 121 41.2 70 23.8 8 ... 302 100
Sexual assault, level 1 0 0.0 134 0.8 4,742 28.6 11,726 70.6 646 ... 17,248 100
Sexual violations against childrenNote 5, Note 6 0 0.0 13 0.5 308 10.7 2,567 88.9 84 ... 2,972 100
Assault, level 3, aggravated 89 3.0 1,670 56.4 1,152 38.9 52 1.8 132 ... 3,095 100
Assault, level 2, weapon or bodily harm 503 1.3 17,957 47.8 9,869 26.3 9,237 24.6 926 ... 38,492 100
Assault, level 1 0 0.0 1,735 1.3 81,231 60.4 51,469 38.3 1,907 ... 136,342 100
Assaults against a peace officer 1 0.0 314 4.2 2,494 33.7 4,597 62.1 25 ... 7,431 100
Other assaults 9 0.4 252 10.8 1,047 44.7 1,033 44.1 37 ... 2,378 100
Firearms; use of, discharge, pointing 141 19.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 602 81.0 23 ... 766 100
Robbery 251 1.3 1,822 9.3 4,762 24.4 12,660 64.9 205 ... 19,700 100
Forcible confinement or kidnapping 15 0.7 106 4.6 1,131 49.4 1,039 45.4 30 ... 2,321 100
Abduction 0 0.0 3 1.1 18 6.8 243 92.0 5 ... 269 100
Extortion 2 0.4 8 1.6 30 5.8 475 92.2 1 ... 516 100
Criminal harassment 0 0.0 54 0.5 256 2.3 10,745 97.2 103 ... 11,158 100
Uttering threats 23 0.1 113 0.3 250 0.7 35,852 98.9 235 ... 36,473 100
Indecent or harassing phone calls 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 7,557 100.0 58 ... 7,615 100
Other violent violations 1 0.1 46 5.9 37 4.8 693 89.2 18 ... 795 100
... not applicable
Note 1.

Includes all weapons other than firearms, such as knives, clubs or blunt instruments, poison, motor vehicles, ligature, or fire.

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Note 2.

Includes all cases where the victim did not suffer a physical injury.

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Note 3.

The number for homicides in this table will not match numbers published in other Juristats or in Tables 3 and 7 of this report, as data from Quebec is excluded (see notes at the end of this table). Specific analysis of homicide is based on data from the Homicide Survey, which represents 100% of the population of Canada.

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Note 4.

Includes, for example, criminal negligence causing death. Also includes incidents where there was an attempted violation causing death, even if the victim did not suffer any injury as a result of the offence.

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Note 5.

In August 2012, legislation came into effect making it an offence to make sexually explicit material available to a child for the purpose of facilitating sexual offences against children/youth. The UCR Survey introduced a new violation code to collect this information.

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Note 6.

Includes, for example, sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching, sexual exploitation, luring a child via a computer, and (as of 2012) making sexually explicit material available to a child for the purpose of facilitating sexual offences against children/youth.

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Note: Percentages are calculated excluding unknowns. Offence represents only the most serious offence in an incident. Data excludes Quebec due to a high proportion of incidents where information on weapons was reported as unknown.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR2) Survey.
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