Sask. has 2nd highest rate of violence against men, boys among provinces: StatCan | 24CA News

The newest Statistics Canada knowledge for police-reported violence in opposition to males and boys exhibits Saskatchewan has one of many highest charges within the nation. The knowledge consists of violent acts corresponding to assault, murder and intimate associate violence.

Among Canadian provinces, solely Manitoba had the next charge of such violence in 2021 (the most recent knowledge out there): Saskatchewan had 1,666 police-reported incidents per 100,000 male inhabitants, whereas Manitoba had 1,805.

The Canadian common was 1,015 victims per 100,000 male inhabitants, a rise of 12 per cent from 2016. Before 2016, that common had been on the decline every year since 2011. With the exception of 2020, it’s been on the rise every year since.

Alexandra Lysova, an affiliate professor of criminology at Simon Fraser University in B.C., has studied violence in opposition to males for greater than a decade.

She says it’s a difficulty that wants extra scrutiny, particularly since males usually tend to be victims of murder.

“It’s been too long that such an important issue in our society hasn’t been discussed,” she stated.

“Men who experience abuse, we know there are thousands of them. There should be a discussion on male victimization so men know it happens, and feel more accepted and try not to hide it in themselves.”

In whole, there have been 192,413 males and boys who had been victims of police-reported violent crime in Canada in 2021, 79 per cent of whom had been victimized by somebody outdoors the household.

This violence is especially concentrated in rural northern areas, the report exhibits.

Canada-wide, “the rate of violent victimization against men and boys was 3,519 per 100,000 population in the rural North, three times higher than the rate in the rural South (1,034) and nearly four times higher than in urban areas (936),” Statistics Canada states.

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In Saskatchewan that rural-urban divide is especially pronounced.

“In Saskatchewan, the rate of victimization was seven times higher in the rural North versus the rural South (10,952 versus 1,528) and almost nine times higher than in urban areas (1,242),” the report exhibits.

Among the 25-to-34 age group in Saskatchewan’s rural north, the speed of police-reported violence was a staggering 21,194 per 100,000 male inhabitants ⁠—  the best charge in that individual class anyplace within the nation.

“Some of the reasons may be, of course, the colonization and intergenerational trauma, so when the relationships between the generations were severed can relate to high alcohol and substance use, mental illnesses,” Lysova stated. “And it also relates to policing, or lack of proper policing in these areas. It also relates to quality of life and other social reasons.”

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Saskatchewan additionally has among the many highest charges of violence in opposition to girls within the nation.

In 2021, the speed of police-reported violence in opposition to girls and women was 2,326 incidents per 100,000 inhabitants. That was the best charge of any province, and greater than twice the nationwide common of 1,190.

Lysova says intimate associate violence particularly, for which police-reported knowledge is captured in its personal Statistics Canada report, is usually bi-directional – which means each companions function each the perpetrator and sufferer of abuse.

She says it’s vital to level out that whereas police-reported knowledge tends to indicate girls as victims in about 80 per cent of instances, some self-reported surveys on home violence present as many males as girls reporting being victims — although she stresses that many extra girls find yourself being killed in these conditions than males. She says treating victims is vital to breaking cycles.

“Family violence is a very specific type of crime. It happens very often bi-directionally, in the majority,” Lysova stated.

“I argue that it’s very important to work with men both if they’ve perpetrated and if they’re victims of abuse. Men are depressed, experience many emotions of anger, lonesome consequences, and something close to PTSD almost in the same way as women do. The victims may be more likely to use and abuse alcoholic substances. These are risk factors for the next cycle of abuse.”

Lysova says there’s room for enchancment in the case of offering help for male victims, from social companies to policing to the authorized system. She says, as an illustration, that amongst 557 government-funded residential amenities for victims of crime in Canada, solely 24 amenities had been mandated to assist males.

“When I talk to abused men they say they have nowhere to go,” stated Lysova.

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She provides this doesn’t imply these amenities don’t assist males, however that personnel typically aren’t particularly educated to cope with males.

“We probably need gender-specific help for men. For example, men do not like to use ‘victims or survivors’. They prefer more agency-based language. So these minor things show us there may be very specific aspects of working with men,” she stated.

“People working in these services, they’re not prepared to deal with men. They don’t know what to tell them. They turn them away. Some laugh at them. Some blame them for their own victimization suggesting that men do something to the women for the women to treat them that way.”

If you or somebody you understand is experiencing abuse or is concerned in an abusive state of affairs, please go to the Canadian Resource Centre for Victims of Crime for assist. They are additionally reachable toll-free at 1-877-232-2610.