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Table 5.2
Senior victims of police-reported family violence, by sex of victim and type of offence, Canada, 2014 Table 5.2
Senior victims of police-reported family violence, by sex of victim and type of offence, Canada, 2014

Table 5.2
Senior victims of police-reported family violence, by sex of victim and type of offence, Canada, 2014
Table summary
This table displays the results of Senior victims 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 percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence	Female victims		Male victims		Total
Type of offence	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent
Violations causing death^Note 1	12	1	7	1	19	1
Attempted murder^Note 2	8	0.4	1	0.1	9	0.3
Sexual assault (levels 1, 2, 3)^Note 3	18	1	1	0.1	19	1
Physical assault
Major assault (levels 2 and 3)^Note 4	219	12	215	17	434	14
Common assault (level 1)^Note 5	1,046	56	682	53	1,728	55
Other assaults^Note 6	12	1	8	1	20	1
Robbery	12	1	14	1	26	1
Extortion	21	1	21	2	42	1
Criminal harassment	80	4	48	4	128	4
Uttering threats	358	19	253	20	611	19
Indecent/harassing phone calls	52	3	24	2	76	2
Other violent offences^Note 7	35	2	14	1	49	2
Total	1,873	100	1,288	100	3,161	100
Note 1. Violations causing death include first degree murder, second degree murder, manslaughter, infanticide, criminal negligence, and other related violations causing death. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2. Attempted murder includes conspire to commit murder. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3. Includes sexual assault, classified as one of three levels according to the seriousness of the incidents. Level 1 sexual assault is the category of least physical injury to the victim; level 2 includes sexual assault with a weapon, threats to use a weapon, or causing bodily harm; and level 3 includes aggravated sexual assault which wounds, maims, disfigures, or endangers the life of the victim. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4. 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 4 referrer Note 5. Level 1 assault is the least serious form of assault and includes pushing, slapping, punching and face-to-face verbal threats. Return to note 5 referrer Note 6. 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 6 referrer Note 7. Includes criminal negligence causing bodily harm, trap likely to cause or causing harm, kidnapping, forcible confinement, hostage-taking, trafficking in persons, abduction, intimidation, explosives causing death or bodily harm, arson, and other violent violations. Return to note 7 referrer Note: Senior victims refer to those aged 65 to 89 years. Family violence refers to violence committed by spouses (legally married, separated, divorced and common-law partners), parents (biological, adopted, step, foster), children (biological, adopted, step, foster), siblings (biological, adopted, step, half, foster), and extended family. Excludes incidents where the victim's sex and/or age was unknown. Excludes a small number of victims in Quebec whose age was unknown but was miscoded as 0. Percentages may not total 100% due to rounding. Victims aged 90 years and older are excluded from analyses due to instances of miscoding of unknown age within this age category. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.

Date modified:: 2016-01-21