Statistics Canada Info on Trends in Police-reported Family Violence

Statistics Canada has published new data on Trends in police-reported family violence and intimate partner violence in Canada, 2022:

"According to police services in Canada, after several years of increase, rates of reported family violence and intimate partner violence were unchanged in 2022. Rates decreased to a small degree for women and girls (-1% for family violence and -1% for intimate partner violence), while they increased slightly for men and boys (+1% for family violence and +2% for intimate partner violence). Regardless, rates for both types of violence were higher for women and girls than for men and boys."

"Today, the Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics at Statistics Canada is releasing a series of downloadable data tables detailing the number and characteristics of victims of police-reported family violence and intimate partner violence (see Note to readers). This release presents high-level trends in police-reported family violence and intimate partner violence. It should be noted that the findings in this release reflect only incidents of family violence and intimate partner violence that came to the attention of the police, and past research has highlighted that these types of violence are often not reported to authorities. As such, the data presented here likely underestimate the full scope of these types of violence."

"In this release, family violence is violence committed by spouses, parents, children, siblings and extended family members and intimate partner violence is violence committed by current and former legally married spouses, common-law partners, dating partners and other intimate partners. Victims of family violence and victims of intimate partner violence are not mutually exclusive groups, as victims of a current or former spouse are included in each group."