Aboriginal men most likely homicide targets in Canada – Northern Journal

November 24, 2015

National homicide rates released by Statistics Canada last week included unprecedented clarity on data from the Aboriginal population.

For the first time, the homicide statistics sourced from Canadian police services have “complete” information on the Aboriginal identity of victims and people accused of homicide. As well, police-reported data on the Aboriginal identity of female homicide victims is now available from 1980 to 2013.

Information from 2014 showed Aboriginal people accounted for 23 per cent of homicide victims in 2014, 117 of 516, despite representing less than five per cent of the population. They represented about one-third of the 431 people accused of homicide as well.