Description for chart 7
The title of the graph is "Chart 7 Persons accused of sexual offences against children and youth, by age of accused, Canada, 2012."
This is a column clustered chart.
There are in total 39 categories in the horizontal axis. The vertical axis starts at 0 and ends at 120 with ticks every 20 points.
There are 1 series in this graph.
The vertical axis is "rate per 100,000 population ."
The horizontal axis is "age of accused (years)."
The minimum value is 9 and it corresponds to "50 and over."
The maximum value is 117 and it corresponds to "13."
age of accused (years) | rate per 100,000 population |
---|---|
12 | 66 |
13 | 117 |
14 | 115 |
15 | 101 |
16 | 95 |
17 | 85 |
18 | 59 |
19 | 54 |
20 | 52 |
21 | 43 |
22 | 34 |
23 | 34 |
24 | 33 |
25 | 26 |
26 | 28 |
27 | 17 |
28 | 24 |
29 | 26 |
30 | 24 |
31 | 29 |
32 | 28 |
33 | 25 |
34 | 24 |
35 | 33 |
36 | 28 |
37 | 36 |
38 | 26 |
39 | 24 |
40 | 24 |
41 | 21 |
42 | 23 |
43 | 21 |
44 | 18 |
45 | 21 |
46 | 19 |
47 | 16 |
48 | 20 |
49 | 13 |
50 and over | 9 |
Notes:
The sexual offences in this chart include aggravated sexual assault (level 3), sexual assault with a weapon or causing bodily harm (level 2), sexual assault (level 1), sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching, sexual exploitation, sexual exploitation of a person with a disability, incest, corrupting children, making sexually explicit material available to children, luring a child via a computer, anal intercourse, bestiality (commit/compel/incite), and voyeurism. Includes victims under the age of 18 only. Rates are based on a subset of incidents where there was a single accused person and a single victim. Excludes a small number of victims in Quebec whose age was unknown but miscoded as 0.
Source:
Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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