Child and youth victims of police-reported violent crime, 2008 : Enfants et les jeunes victimes de crimes violents déclarés par la police, 2008

This report analyzes the nature and extent of police-reported violence committed against children and youth under the age of 18. [...] It examines differences in victimization based on sex and age of victims, type of offence, prevalence across the provinces and territories, relationship to the perpetrator, weapon used and level of injury. [...] The age of these accused suggests that many of them were peers, as 39% were between 12 and 17 years of age, and another 23% were between the ages of 18 and 24. [...] A new offence of Internet luring was created to prohibit the use of a computer to communicate with a child for the purpose of facilitating the commission of a sexual offence against that child. [...] In recent years, a number of initiatives were established at the federal and provincial levels to combat all forms of online child sexual exploitation including the National Strategy to Protect Children from Sexual Exploitation on the Internet which includes the RCMP’s National Child Exploitation Coordination Centre, and Cybertip.ca, a national tip-line for reporting online sexual exploitation of