A new study shows that both family violence and intimate-partner violence trends have been rising over the past five years
In a report about rising levels of family violence and intimate-partner violence, Statscan found that police-reported cases of children and youth being victimized by family members is now at its “highest rate since comparable data became available in 2009.”
The new study shows that both family violence and intimate-partner violence trends have been rising over the past five years. These trends are in line with rising overall levels of police-reported violent crime, which increased 20 per cent between 2018 and 2023. The Statscan report explained that family violence can be committed by spouses, parents, children, siblings and extended family members, while intimate-partner violence is committed by a spouse, or a common-law or dating partner.“Most often, family violence against children and youth was perpetrated by a parent,” the Statscan study said, and that such crimes often go greatly under-reported.
Ms. Conroy, the senior analyst for Statistics Canada, said changes in police-reported crime levels can reflect not just increasing numbers of crimes but may also indicate growing public awareness of problems and changing statistical methodologies.“We analyze them as two separate groups but they aren’t mutually exclusive.”
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