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Yukon

Victims of police-reported violent crime in Yukon, 2016

There were 1,327 victims of violent crime and criminal traffic offences causing death or bodily harm reported by police in Yukon in 2016. This represented 3,539 victims per 100,000 population, more than three times the national rate (Table A).
Most (87%) victims of police-reported crime were adults aged 18 and older; 71% were aged 25 and older. Meanwhile, 10% of victims were youth aged 12 to 17 and 3% were children under age 12. When controlling for population, the rate of victimization was highest among youth aged 16 to 17 and young adults aged 18 to 24 (Table 12.1).
Over three-quarters (77%) of victims of police-reported crime in 2016 were victims of assault: 60% were victims of common assault (level 1) and 14% were victims of major assault (level 2 or 3).^Note Assault victims accounted for four in five (80%) of adult victims of police-reported violent crime. In comparison, assault accounted for almost two-thirds (62%) of child and youth victims (Table 12.1). Rates of assault were highest among young adults.
Overall, 7% of police-reported victims were victims of sexual offences. However, these offences were much more prevalent among child and youth victims that came to the attention of police. Among child victims (under age 12), 10% were victims of sexual assault (all sexual assault level 1) and another 15% were victims of sexual violations against children.^Note For youth victims (aged 12 to 17), 14% were victims of sexual assault (all sexual assault level 1) and 11% were victims of sexual violations against children (Table 12.1). Among victims of all ages, rates of police-reported sexual assault were highest among youth aged 16 to 17 while sexual violations against children were highest among youth aged 12 to 15 years.
One in seven (14%) police-reported victims in 2016 were victims of other violent offences including uttering threats (10%) (Table 12.1).
While over half (56%) of police-reported victims were female, they represented a much larger proportion of victims of sexual offences (88%) and of some other violent offences such as criminal harassment (91%) (Table 12.2).
Assault was the most common police-reported offence among both male (84%) and female (72%) victims in 2016. Meanwhile, 12% of female victims were victims of sexual offences (9% sexual assault—mostly level 1—and 2% sexual violations against children). In comparison, 2% of males were victims of sexual offences (Table12.2).
Male and female victims of police-reported sexual offences differed notably by age. Overall, among female victims of all sexual offences, 40% were either children under the age of 12 (7%) or youth aged 12 to 17 (33%). Of all female child and youth victims, 34% were victims of sexual offences: 18% were sexual assault and 16% were sexual violations against children (Table 12.3).
Compared to females, a much larger proportion (73%) of male victims of police-reported sexual offences were either children (36%) or youth (36%). Despite this, sexual offences were still less common among young male child and youth victims, representing 11% of victims (compared to 34% for their female counterparts). Instead, assault was the most common (76%) offence for male child and youth victims (Table 12.3).

Victim services in Yukon

Yukon’s Department of Justice provides programming to victims of crime through their Victim Services Branch. This includes system-based programs that assist victims of violent and non-violent crime (Yukon Victim Services), and offers practical supports such as a Victims of Crime Emergency Fund and an emergency cell phone program. In addition, specialized programs are available to specific types of victims including domestic violence victims, child and youth victims and family members of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. Victim Services has offices in Whitehorse, Watson Lake and Dawson City, and provides itinerant service to all other Yukon communities and three Northern B.C. communities. Given the geographic challenges of providing services in the territory, most communities do not have permanent local victim services staff. In these communities, victims generally receive support from the Victim Services Program, during every court circuit, by telephone or by referral to local services. In addition, victim service staff will go into the communities to provide support as required.

The information provided below reflects data reported by system-based programs administered by the Yukon Department of Justice.^Note Some individuals who are victims in repeat incidents (e.g., domestic violence victims), or in multiple incidents with different offenders, may be counted more than once. In addition, individual incidents of crime may result in several victims being counted, including secondary victims such as family members.

In 2016, Yukon Victim Services assisted 612 victims of crime.^Note
Children and youth accounted for 11% of victims assisted by the program.
About four-fifths (82%) of victims served were female.
Most victims who received assistance (91%) were victims of violent crime.^Note About six in ten victims of violent offences (61%) were victims of a physical assault, and another 19% were victims of sexual offences. More than half (55%) of sexual offence victims were under age 18 (50 victims).^Note About one in eight (9%) victims served were victims of a non-violent offence or traffic offence.

Note: Percentages have been calculated excluding unknowns. Percentages may not add up to totals due to rounding. Not all percentages presented in the text are provided in the tables. No tables are provided for the Canadian Victim Services Indicators (CVSI) data.

Detailed data tables

Table 12.1
Victims of police-reported violent crime and traffic violations causing death or bodily harm, by type of offence and age group of victim, Yukon, 2016
Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of police-reported violent crime and traffic violations causing death or bodily harm. The information is grouped by Type of offence (appearing as row headers), Age group, Total victims, Child victims
under 12 years, Youth victims, Adult victims, 12 to 15 years, 16 to 17 years, 18 to 24 years and 25 years and older, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence	Age group										Total victims^{Table 12.1 Note 1}
	Child victims under 12 years		Youth victims				Adult victims
	Child victims under 12 years		12 to 15 years		16 to 17 years		18 to 24 years		25 years and older
	number	percent^{Table 12.1 Note 1}	number	percent^{Table 12.1 Note 1}	number	percent^{Table 12.1 Note 1}	number	percent^{Table 12.1 Note 1}	number	percent^{Table 12.1 Note 1}	number	percent^{Table 12.1 Note 1}
Violent Criminal Code offences
Violations causing death and attempted murder	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	20	4	80	5	100
Homicide and other offences causing death^{Table 12.1 Note 2}	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	25	3	75	4	100
Attempted murder	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	100	1	100
Sexual offences	10	11	24	25	8	8	18	19	35	37	95	100
Sexual assault	4	5	11	15	7	9	18	24	35	47	75	100
Sexual assault (level 3)—aggravated	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	100	0	0	1	100
Sexual assault (level 2)—weapon or causing bodily harm	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sexual assault (level 1)	4	5	11	15	7	9	17	23	35	47	74	100
Sexual violations against children^{Table 12.1 Note 3}	6	30	13	65	1	5	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	20	100
Assaults	28	3	39	4	39	4	162	16	758	74	1,026	100
Assault (level 3)—aggravated	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	40	9	60	15	100
Assault (level 2)—weapon or causing bodily harm	2	1	6	3	8	5	21	12	139	79	176	100
Assault (level 1)	24	3	31	4	31	4	135	17	573	72	794	100
Other^{Table 12.1 Note 4}	2	5	2	5	0	0	0	0	37	90	41	100
Other violent offences	2	1	13	7	7	4	21	11	140	77	184	100
Robbery	0	0	1	6	0	0	3	17	14	78	19	100
Criminal harassment	1	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	91	11	100
Indecent/harassing communications	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	20	4	80	5	100
Uttering threats	1	1	10	8	5	4	11	8	104	79	131	100
Kidnapping, forcible confinement, abduction or hostage taking	0	0	1	13	0	0	2	25	5	63	8	100
Trafficking in persons and prostitution	0	0	0	0	1	100	0	0	0	0	1	100
Other^{Table 12.1 Note 5}	0	0	1	11	1	11	4	44	3	33	9	100
Criminal Code traffic violations causing death or bodily harm^{Table 12.1 Note 6}
Impaired driving and other traffic violations causing death^{Table 12.1 Note 6}	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Impaired driving and other traffic violations causing bodily harm^{Table 12.1 Note 6}	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	41	10	59	17	100
Total victims	40	3	76	6	54	4	209	16	947	71	1,327	100
... not applicable Note 1 Total victims includes victims where the age was unknown. Percentage calculations exclude victims where the age was unknown. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Excludes Criminal Code traffic violations causing death such as impaired driving. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Sexual violations against children are a set of Criminal Code offences that specifically concern offences involving child and youth victims. These include offences such as sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching and sexual exploitation, but exclude sexual assault and other sexual offences not specific to children. See the “Definitions” section for a full list of offences in this category. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 Includes assaults against police and other peace officers, and other types of assaults such as criminal negligence causing bodily harm. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 Includes violent firearm offences, extortion and other violent violations. Return to note 5 referrer Note 6 Includes dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, failure to stop and other Criminal Code traffic violations. Return to note 6 referrer Note: 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. Percentages may not add up to 100 due to rounding. For police-reported incidents that involve violations against the person, a victim record is collected for each victim involved in the incident. If an individual is a victim in multiple incidents in the same reference year, that individual will be counted as one victim for each separate incident. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.

Table 12.2
Victims of police-reported violent crime and traffic violations causing death or bodily harm, by type of offence and sex of victim, Yukon, 2016
Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of police-reported violent crime and traffic violations causing death or bodily harm. 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^{Table 12.2 Note 1}
Type of offence	number	percent^{Table 12.2 Note 1}	number	percent^{Table 12.2 Note 1}	number	percent^{Table 12.2 Note 1}
Violent Criminal Code offences
Violations causing death and attempted murder	0	0	5	100	5	100
Homicide and other offences causing death^{Table 12.2 Note 2}	0	0	4	100	4	100
Attempted murder	0	0	1	100	1	100
Sexual offences	84	88	11	12	95	100
Sexual assault	68	91	7	9	75	100
Sexual assault (level 3)—aggravated	1	100	0	0	1	100
Sexual assault (level 2)—weapon or causing bodily harm	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sexual assault (level 1)	67	91	7	9	74	100
Sexual violations against children^{Table 12.2 Note 3}	16	80	4	20	20	100
Assaults	523	52	487	48	1,026	100
Assault (level 3)—aggravated	3	20	12	80	15	100
Assault (level 2)—weapon or causing bodily harm	68	39	107	61	176	100
Assault (level 1)	449	57	341	43	794	100
Other^{Table 12.2 Note 4}	3	10	27	90	41	100
Other violent offences	112	62	68	38	184	100
Robbery	11	58	8	42	19	100
Criminal harassment	10	91	1	9	11	100
Indecent/harassing communications	5	100	0	0	5	100
Uttering threats	71	56	56	44	131	100
Kidnapping, forcible confinement, abduction or hostage taking	7	88	1	13	8	100
Trafficking in persons and prostitution	1	100	0	0	1	100
Other^{Table 12.2 Note 5}	7	78	2	22	9	100
Criminal Code traffic violations causing death or bodily harm^{Table 12.2 Note 6}
Impaired driving and other traffic violations causing death^{Table 12.2 Note 6}	0	0	0	0	0	0
Impaired driving and other traffic violations causing bodily harm^{Table 12.2 Note 6}	8	47	9	53	17	100
Total victims	727	56	580	44	1,327	100
Note 1 Total victims includes victims where the sex was unknown. Percentage calculations exclude victims where the sex was unknown. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Excludes Criminal Code traffic violations causing death such as impaired driving. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Sexual violations against children are a set of Criminal Code offences that specifically concern offences involving child and youth victims. These include offences such as sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching and sexual exploitation, but exclude sexual assault and other sexual offences not specific to children. See the “Definitions” section for a full list of offences in this category. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 Includes assaults against police and other peace officers, as well as other types of assaults such as criminal negligence causing bodily harm. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 Includes violent firearm offences, extortion and other violent violations. Return to note 5 referrer Note 6 Includes dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, failure to stop and other Criminal Code traffic violations. Return to note 6 referrer Note: 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. Percentages may not add up to 100 due to rounding. For police-reported incidents that involve violations against the person, a victim record is collected for each victim involved in the incident. If an individual is a victim in multiple incidents in the same reference year, that individual will be counted as one victim for each separate incident. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.

Table 12.3
Victims of police-reported violent crime and traffic violations causing death or bodily harm, by type of offence and sex and age group of victim, Yukon, 2016
Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of police-reported violent crime and traffic violations causing death or bodily harm. The information is grouped by Type of offence (appearing as row headers), Age group, Total victims, Child victims
under 12 years, Youth victims
12 to 17 years and Adult victims
18 years and older, calculated using Number, rate and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence	Age group									Total victims^{Table 12.3 Note 1}
	Child victims under 12 years			Youth victims 12 to 17 years			Adult victims 18 years and older			Total victims^{Table 12.3 Note 1}
	number	rate	percent^{Table 12.3 Note 1}	number	rate	percent^{Table 12.3 Note 1}	number	rate	percent^{Table 12.3 Note 1}	number	rate	percent^{Table 12.3 Note 1}
Female victims
Violations causing death and attempted murder^{Table 12.3 Note 2}	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sexual offences	6	234	7	28	2,476	33	50	340	60	84	455	100
Sexual assault (level 1, 2 and 3)	2	78	3	16	1,415	24	50	340	74	68	369	100
Sexual violations against children^{Table 12.3 Note 3}	4	156	25	12	1,061	75	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	16	87	100
Assaults^{Table 12.3 Note 4}	12	469	2	40	3,537	8	471	3,207	90	523	2,836	100
Other violent offences^{Table 12.3 Note 5}	1	39	1	12	1,061	11	99	674	88	112	607	100
Criminal Code traffic violations causing death or bodily harm^{Table 12.3 Note 6}	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	54	100	8	43	100
Total female victims	19	742	3	80	7,073	11	628	4,276	86	727	3,942	100
Male victims
Violations causing death and attempted murder^{Table 12.3 Note 2}	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	33	100	5	26	100
Sexual offences	4	150	36	4	313	36	3	20	27	11	58	100
Sexual assault (level 1, 2 and 3)	2	75	29	2	156	29	3	20	43	7	37	100
Sexual violations against children^{Table 12.3 Note 3}	2	75	50	2	156	50	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	4	21	100
Assaults^{Table 12.3 Note 4}	16	602	3	37	2,895	8	434	2,877	89	487	2,557	100
Other violent offences^{Table 12.3 Note 5}	1	38	1	8	626	12	58	384	87	68	357	100
Criminal Code traffic violations causing death or bodily harm^{Table 12.3 Note 6}	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	60	100	9	47	100
Total male victims	21	790	4	49	3,834	8	509	3,374	88	580	3,045	100
Total victims^{Table 12.3 Note 7}	40	766	3	130	5,396	10	1,156	3,883	87	1,327	3,539	100
... not applicable Note 1 Total victims includes victims where the age was unknown. Percentage calculations exclude victims where the age was unknown. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Includes homicide, other offences causing death and attempted murder. Excludes Criminal Code traffic violations causing death such as impaired driving. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Sexual violations against children are a set of Criminal Code offences that specifically concern offences involving child and youth victims. These include offences such as sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching and sexual exploitation, but exclude sexual assault and other sexual offences not specific to children. See the “Definitions” section for a full list of offences in this category. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 Includes assault (level 1, 2 and 3), assaults against police and other peace officers, and other types of assaults such as criminal negligence causing bodily harm. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 Includes robbery; criminal harassment; incident/harassing communications; uttering threats; kidnapping, forcible confinement, abduction or hostage taking; trafficking in persons and prostitution; violent firearm offences; extortion; and other violent violations. Return to note 5 referrer Note 6 Includes impaired driving, dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, failure to stop and other Criminal Code traffic violations. Return to note 6 referrer Note 7 Includes victims where the sex was unknown. Return to note 7 referrer Note: 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. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Populations based upon July 1st estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division. Percentages may not add up to 100 due to rounding. For police-reported incidents that involve violations against the person, a victim record is collected for each victim involved in the incident. If an individual is a victim in multiple incidents in the same reference year, that individual will be counted as one victim for each separate incident. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.

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The remaining assaults include other assaults such as assault against a peace officer.

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Sexual violations against children are a set of Criminal Code violations that specifically concern offences involving child and youth victims. These include offences such as sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching and sexual exploitation, but exclude sexual assaults and other sexual offences not specific to children. See the “Definitions” section for a full list of offences in this category.

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Because of differences in the definition of victims and methods of counting, these victim counts should not be compared to victim counts for other provinces and territories. Moreover, these counts should also not be compared to the count of police-reported victims from the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.

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Counts represent new files opened in the reference year, and does not capture clients being served who had files opened in previous years and were still receiving service. This includes anyone who identified as a victim of the crime, such as family members or other community members.

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Excludes 93 victims of crime where information on the specific offence was not available.

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Includes sexual assault as well as sexual violations specific to children.

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Date modified:: 2018-05-30

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