Term: Crimes Against Persons
Last Updated: 2024-04-01
Crimes against persons is a category of crime that consists of offences involving bodily harm or a threat of bodily harm to another individual. These include homicide, attempted murder, robbery, assault, sexual assault, and other sexual offences, uttering threats, and criminal harassment. Crime data is obtained from the Winnipeg Police Service, Crime Statistics Unit.
For a classification of common offences see Statistics Canada website -
Classification of common offence - 1.1 Crimes against the person