Table 2.4
Victims of police-reported violent crime, by sex of victim and relationship of accused to victim and type of clearance status, Canada, 2015

Table 2.4
Victims of police-reported violent crime, by sex of victim and relationship of accused to victim and type of clearance status, Canada, 2015
Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of police-reported violent crime. The information is grouped by Type of clearance status (appearing as row headers), Victims of family violence, Victims of non-family violence, Female victims, Male victims and Total victims, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of clearance status Victims of family violence Victims of non-family violence
Female victims Male victims Total victims Female victims Male victims Total victims
number percent number percent number percent number percent number percent number percent
Not clearedTable 2.4 Note 1 8,957 15 5,360 19 14,317 17 33,032 29 45,461 35 78,493 32
Cleared by charge 35,096 61 12,965 46 48,061 56 60,304 52 56,854 43 117,158 48
Cleared otherwise 13,899 24 9,829 35 23,728 28 22,030 19 28,677 22 50,707 21
Complainant requests charges not be laid 7,205 12 5,260 19 12,465 14 10,929 9 15,811 12 26,740 11
Reasons beyond the control of department 3,006 5 1,975 7 4,981 6 2,238 2 2,564 2 4,802 2
Departmental discretion 2,999 5 2,250 8 5,249 6 7,035 6 8,062 6 15,097 6
OtherTable 2.4 Note 2 689 1 344 1 1,033 1 1,828 2 2,240 2 4,068 2
Total 57,952 100 28,154 100 86,106 100 115,366 100 130,992 100 246,358 100
Note 1.

'Not cleared' refers to incidents where an accused person has not been identified in connection with the incident or incidents where there is insufficient evidence to lay a charge in connection with the incident.

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Note 2.

'Cleared by other means' includes suicide of accused, death of accused, death of witness/complainant, accused is less than 12 years of age, committal of accused to mental hospital, accused in foreign country, accused involved in other incidents, accused already sentenced, diversionary programs, incident cleared by a lesser statute, incident cleared by other municipal/provincial/federal agency.

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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. In cases of domestic violence, every Canadian jurisdiction has implemented some form of pro-charging policies. The particular parameters of these pro-charging policies can vary regionally.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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