Table 4.6
Senior victims of police-reported violent crimes, by family and non-family violence and type of clearance status, Canada, 2010

Table 4.6
Senior victims of police-reported violent crimes, by family and non-family violence and type of clearance status, Canada, 2010
Type of clearance status FamilyNote 1 Non-familyNote 2 Total
number percent number percent number percent
Not clearedNote 3 413 16 2,070 39 2,483 32
Cleared by charge 1,330 51 1,627 31 2,957 38
Cleared otherwise 876 33 1,545 29 2,421 31
Complainant requests charges not be laid 553 21 784 15 1,337 17
Reasons beyond the control of department 78 3 146 3 224 3
Departmental discretion 214 8 526 10 740 9
OtherNote 4 31 1 89 2 120 2
Total 2,619 100 5,242 100 7,861 100
1. Family violence refers to violence committed by spouses (legally married, separated, divorced, and common-law partners), children, siblings, and extended family.
2. Non-family violence refers to violence committed by friends, dating partners, casual acquaintances, business relationships, criminal relationships, authority figures, and strangers.
3. 'Not cleared' refers to incidents where an accused person has not been identified in connection with the incident.
4. '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, incidents cleared by a lesser statute, incident cleared by other municipal/provincial/federal agency.
Note: Senior victims refer to those aged 65 to 89 years. Excludes incidents where the sex and/or age of victim was unknown and where the relationship between the victim and the accused was unknown. Excludes information from the Montréal Police Service due to the unavailability of clearance data in 2010.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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