Table 3
Cases completed in adult criminal court, by type of offence, Canada, 2010/2011 and 2011/2012

Table 3
Cases completed in adult criminal court, by type of offence, Canada, 2010/2011 and 2011/2012
Table summary
This table displays the results of cases completed in adult criminal court. The information is grouped by type of offence (appearing as row headers), 2010/2011, 2011/2012, percent change in number of cases 2010/2011 to 2011/2012 (%) and difference in median length of cases 2010/2011 to 2011/2012 (days), calculated using number and median length of case (days) units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offenceNote 1 2010/2011 2011/2012 Percent change in number of cases 2010/2011 to 2011/2012 (%) Difference in median length of cases 2010/2011 to 2011/2012 (days)
numberNote 2 Median length of case (days)Note 3 numberNote 2 Median length of case (days)Note 3
Violent offences 94,720 158 91,697 161 -3.2 3
Homicide 296 384 263 386 -11.1 2
Attempted murder 156 303 153 259 -1.9 -44
Robbery 4,223 208 3,804 206 -9.9 -2
Sexual assault 4,087 300 3,949 308 -3.4 8
Other sexual offencesNote 4 2,338 267 2,252 274 -3.7 7
Major assaultNote 5 21,251 183 20,607 189 -3.0 6
Common assault 37,990 127 37,063 127 -2.4 0
Uttering threats 17,925 145 17,427 150 -2.8 5
Criminal harassment 3,284 146 3,242 156 -1.3 10
Other violent offences 3,170 196 2,937 205 -7.4 9
Property offences 97,914 102 89,869 99 -8.2 -3
TheftNote 6 43,040 75 39,816 70 -7.5 -5
Break and enter 11,497 148 10,672 157 -7.2 9
Fraud 14,718 155 12,534 163 -14.8 8
Mischief 14,832 108 14,193 99 -4.3 -9
Possess stolen property 12,014 100 11,061 93 -7.9 -7
Other property offences 1,813 141 1,593 161 -12.1 20
Administration of justice offences 85,947 70 83,987 70 -2.3 0
Fail to appear 5,112 75 4,556 84 -10.9 9
Breach of probation 31,554 57 31,574 57 0.1 0
Unlawfully at large 2,563 18 2,615 23 2.0 5
Fail to comply with order 37,781 77 36,665 75 -3.0 -2
Other admin. of justice offences 8,937 116 8,577 118 -4.0 2
Other Criminal Code offences 18,999 146 16,556 156 -12.9 10
Weapon offences 9,984 164 9,463 168 -5.2 4
Prostitution 1,584 96 1,030 106 -35.0 10
Disturbing the peace 1,786 64 1,406 62 -21.3 -2
Residual Criminal Code offences 5,645 170 4,657 187 -17.5 17
Total Criminal Code (excl. traffic) 297,580 113 282,109 113 -5.2 0
Criminal Code traffic offences 61,185 149 53,022 133 -13.3 -16
Impaired driving 49,520 145 42,053 117 -15.1 -28
Other Criminal Code traffic offences 11,665 162 10,969 165 -6.0 3
Total Criminal Code offences 358,765 117 335,131 114 -6.6 -3
Other federal statute offences 51,192 127 51,320 133 0.3 6
Drug possession 16,498 85 16,787 80 1.8 -5
Other drug offencesNote 7 12,875 233 12,243 246 -4.9 13
Youth Criminal Justice Act 1,478 59 1,353 52 -8.5 -7
Residual federal statute offences 20,341 131 20,937 153 2.9 22
Total 409,957 119 386,451 117 -5.7 -2
Note 1.

Cases that involve more than one charge are represented by the most serious offence.

Note 2.

A case is one or more charges against an accused person or company that were processed by the courts at the same time and received a final decision.

Note 3.

Refers to the mid-point in the number of days taken to complete a case, from first to last court appearance.

Note 4.

Includes, for example, sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching, child pornography, luring a child via a computer and sexual exploitation.

Note 5.

Includes, for example, assault with a weapon (level 2) and aggravated assault (level 3).

Note 6.

Includes, for example, theft over $5,000, theft $5,000 or under, as well as motor vehicle theft.

Note 7.

Includes drug trafficking, production, importing and exporting.

Note: Data exclude information from superior courts in Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan as well as municipal courts in Quebec due to the unavailability of data.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Integrated Criminal Court Survey.
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