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Table 3.5
Victims of police-reported intimate partner violence, by type of intimate partner relationship and type of clearance status, Canada, 2016

Table 3.5
Victims of police-reported intimate partner violence, by type of intimate partner relationship and type of clearance status, Canada, 2016
Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of police-reported intimate partner violence. The information is grouped by Type of clearance status (appearing as row headers), Victims of spousal violence, Victims of dating violence, Total victims of intimate partner violence, Females, Males and Total, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of clearance status	Victims of spousal violence^{Table 3.5 Note 1}						Victims of dating violence^{Table 3.5 Note 2}						Total victims of intimate partner violence^{Table 3.5 Note 3}
	Females		Males		Total		Females		Males		Total
	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	percent
Not cleared^{Table 3.5 Note 4}	3,535	11	1,327	15	4,862	12	5,793	14	1,828	17	7,621	14	13
Cleared by charge	23,237	73	4,814	55	28,051	69	32,001	77	7,479	68	39,480	75	72
Cleared otherwise	5,026	16	2,638	30	7,664	19	3,808	9	1,761	16	5,569	11	14
Complainant declined that charge(s) be laid	1,845	6	912	10	2,757	7	1,808	4	877	8	2,685	5	6
Reasons beyond the control of department	2,359	7	1,256	14	3,615	9	631	2	292	3	923	2	5
Departmental discretion	657	2	425	5	1,082	3	1,129	3	537	5	1,666	3	3
Other^{Table 3.5 Note 5}	165	1	45	1	210	1	240	1	55	0	295	1	1
Total	31,798	100	8,779	100	40,577	100	41,602	100	11,068	100	52,670	100	100
Note 1 Refers to violence committed by married, separated or divorced spouses and common-law partners (current and former). Includes victims aged 15 to 89. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Refers to violence committed by boyfriends and girlfriends (current and former) and other intimate partners. Includes victims aged 15 to 89. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Refers to violence committed by married, separated or divorced spouses, common-law partners (current and former), dating partners (current and former) and other intimate partners. Includes victims aged 15 to 89. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 'Not cleared' refers to incidents where an accused person has been identified in connection with the incident or incidents but where there is insufficient evidence to lay a charge. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 '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. Return to note 5 referrer Note: Intimate partner violence refers to violence committed by legally married, separated or divorced spouses, common-law partners (current and former), dating partners (current and former), and other intimate partners. Victims refer to those aged 15 to 89. Victims aged 90 years and older are excluded from analyses due to possible instances of miscoding of unknown age within this age category. Excludes victims where the sex or the age was unknown or where the accused-victim relationship was unknown. 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.

Date modified:: 2018-01-17