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Table 7.14 Youth court, by type of decision, 2009/2010
Table summary
This table displays the results of table 7.14 youth court total decisions, guilty, acquitted, stay, withdrawn or dismissed and other decisions, calculated using number units of measure (appearing as column headers).
  Total decisions Guilty Acquitted Stay Withdrawn or dismissed Other decisions
  number
Total offences 56,234 32,452 657 10,958 22,688 436
Total Criminal Code offences 46,697 26,272 605 9,582 19,446 373
Criminal Code (excluding traffic offences) 45,612 25,394 569 9,542 19,284 364
Crimes against the person 14,633 8,511 351 2,466 5,663 108
Homicide 44 27 1 7 13 3
Attempted murder 26 9 0 2 17 0
Robbery 2,496 1,497 48 264 935 16
Sexual assault 910 470 69 135 358 13
Other sexual offences 321 237 4 26 74 6
Major assaultNote 1 3,500 2,264 92 530 1,122 22
Common assaultNote 2 4,458 2,402 76 903 1,953 27
Uttering threats 2,387 1,344 47 502 985 11
Criminal harassment 171 81 5 43 79 6
Other crimes against the person 320 180 9 54 127 4
Property crimes 22,015 11,213 154 5,916 10,533 115
Theft 8,389 4,024 37 2,594 4,284 44
Break and enter 4,750 3,075 26 779 1,624 25
Fraud 825 426 6 226 387 6
Mischief 4,226 1,901 49 1,224 2,262 14
Possession of stolen property 3,217 1,424 27 976 1,744 22
Other property crimes 608 363 9 117 232 4
Administration of justice 6,054 3,934 30 632 1,982 107
Other Criminal Code offences 2,910 1,736 34 528 1,106 34
Criminal Code traffic offences 1,085 878 36 40 162 9
Impaired driving 604 512 27 22 63 2
Other Criminal Code traffic offences 481 366 9 18 99 7
Other federal statute offences 9,537 6,180 52 1,376 3,242 63
Drug possession 2,540 849 11 815 1,668 12
Drug trafficking 1,267 726 25 202 513 3
Youth Criminal Justice Act 5,647 4,559 16 351 1,030 42
Residual federal statute offences 83 46 0 8 31 6
1. Includes unlawfully causing bodily harm, discharging firearms with intent, abductions, assaults against police officers, assaults against other peace or public officers and other assaults.
2. Level 1, or common, assault includes pushing, slapping, punching and face-to-face threats; Level 2 assault is defined as assault with a weapon or causing bodily harm; Level 3, or aggravated, assault is defined as assault that wounds, maims, disfigures or endangers the life of the victim.
Source: Statistics Canada, CANSIM table 252-0049.
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