Table 2.3
Victims of police-reported family violence, by sex of victim and type of offence, Canada, 2015

Table 2.3
Victims of police-reported family violence, by sex of victim and type of offence, Canada, 2015
Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of police-reported family violence. The information is grouped by Type of offence (appearing as row headers), Female victims, Male victims and Total victims, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence Female victims Male victims Total victims
number percent number percent number percent
Violations causing deathTable 2.3 Note 1 101 0.2 70 0.2 171 0.2
Attempted murderTable 2.3 Note 2 89 0.2 65 0.2 154 0.2
Sexual offencesTable 2.3 Note 3 5,833 10 1,068 4 6,901 8
Physical assault 40,832 70 22,086 78 62,918 73
Major assault (levels 2 and 3)Table 2.3 Note 4 6,665 12 5,599 20 12,264 14
Common assault (level 1)Table 2.3 Note 5 33,938 59 16,348 58 50,286 58
Other assaultsTable 2.3 Note 6 229 0.4 139 0.5 368 0.4
Criminal harassment 2,798 5 570 2 3,368 4
Indecent or harassing phone calls 637 1 202 0.7 839 1
Uttering threats 5,984 10 3,501 12 9,485 11
Robbery 134 0.2 102 0.4 236 0.3
Other violent offencesTable 2.3 Note 7 1,544 3 490 2 2,034 2
Total 57,952 100 28,154 100 86,106 100
Note 1.

Violations causing death include first degree murder, second degree murder, manslaughter, infanticide, criminal negligence causing death, and other related violations causing death.

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Note 2.

Attempted murder includes conspiracy to commit murder.

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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. Also includes other sexual crimes such as non-consensual distribution of intimate images, sexual interference, sexual exploitation, luring a child via a computer, and voyeurism.

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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.

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Note 5.

Level 1 assault is the least serious form of assault and includes pushing, slapping, punching and face-to-face verbal threats.

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Note 6.

Other assaults include 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.

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Note 7.

Other violent offences include criminal negligence causing bodily harm, trap likely to cause or causing bodily harm, kidnapping, forcible confinement, hostage-taking, trafficking in persons, abduction, extortion, intimidation of a non-justice participant, explosives causing death or bodily harm, arson, and other violent violations.

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Note: 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 members. Victims refer to those aged 89 years and younger. Victims aged 90 years and older are excluded from analyses due to possible instances of miscoding of unknown age within this age category. Excludes spousal victims under the age of 15 years. Excludes victims where the sex or the age was unknown or where the accused-victim relationship 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.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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