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APPENDIX CVIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN CANADAHow Common is Violence Against Women?• One-half (1/2) of Canadian women have experienced at least one incident of physical orsexual violence since the age of 16. 1Who are the Perpetrators of Violence Against Women?• Women face the greatest risk of violence from men they know. Almost one-half (45%) of allCanadian women experienced violence by men known to them. 2How Common is Wife Abuse?• 1 in 4 Canadian women have experienced physical or sexual violence at the hands of amarital partner. 3• 1 in 2 women with previous marriages reported experiencing violence at the hands of aprevious spouse. 4How Serious is the Violence• Sixty-three percent (63%) of women who had been assaulted by a current or past partner orspouse were victimized on more than one occasion, 32% more than 10 times. 5• One third of women who were assaulted by a partner feared for their lives at some pointduring the abusive relationship. 6• 45% of incidents of violence committed by a man against his wife resulted in injury to thewife. 7• 44% of men who are violent to their wife use weapons during the physical attack. 9• Women who are separated from their spouses are at particularly high risk of intimatefemicide. They are approximately five times more likely to be killed by their intimatepartners than other women are. (Woman Killing: Intimate Femicide in Ontario. 1974-1990 p.52). 9• Over the period 1974-1992, a married woman was nine times more likely to be killed by herspouse than by a stranger. 10• In Canada between 1974-1992, 1,435 women were murdered by their husbands. This isapproximately 75 women in each and every year. 1140
References1. Statistics Canada, The Daily, the Violence Against Women Survey, November, 1993 p. 22. Statistics Canada, p. 23. Statistics Canada, p. 44. Statistics Canada, p. 45. Statistics Canada, p. 36. Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics Juristat Service Bulletin, Wife Assault: The Findings of aNational Survey Vol. 14, No 9 March 1994, p. 87. Statistics Canada, p. 68. Statistics Canada, p. 69. Crawford, Maria; Gartner, Rosemary; Women We Honour Action Committee, Women Killing:Intimate Femicide in Ontario 1974 - 1990. April 1992, p. 5210. Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics. Juristat Service Bulletin. Spousal Homicide -Vol. 14, No. 8Margo Wilson and Martin Daly, March 1994 p.111. Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Spousal Homicide, p. 241
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References1. Statistics Canada, The Daily, the Violence Against <strong>Women</strong> Survey, November, 1993 p. 22. Statistics Canada, p. 23. Statistics Canada, p. 44. Statistics Canada, p. 45. Statistics Canada, p. 36. Canadian Centre <strong>for</strong> Justice Statistics Juristat Service Bulletin, Wife Assault: The Findings of aNational Survey Vol. 14, No 9 March 1994, p. 87. Statistics Canada, p. 68. Statistics Canada, p. 69. Craw<strong>for</strong>d, Maria; Gartner, Rosemary; <strong>Women</strong> We Honour Action Committee, <strong>Women</strong> Killing:Intimate Femicide in Ontario 1974 - 1990. April 1992, p. 5210. Canadian Centre <strong>for</strong> Justice Statistics. Juristat Service Bulletin. Spousal Homicide -Vol. 14, No. 8Margo Wilson and Martin Daly, March 1994 p.111. Canadian Centre <strong>for</strong> Justice Statistics, Spousal Homicide, p. 241
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