Description for Chart 2
Ten most common offences for cases completed in adult criminal court, Canada, 2013/2014
The title of the graph is "Chart 2 Ten most common offences for cases completed in adult criminal court, Canada, 2013/2014."
This is a bar clustered chart.
This is a horizontal bar graph, so categories are on the vertical axis and values on the horizontal axis.
There are in total 10 categories in the vertical axis. The horizontal axis starts at 0 and ends at 12 with ticks every 2 points.
There are 1 series in this graph.
The horizontal axis is "percent of total cases."
The vertical axis is "Ten most common offences."
The title of series 1 is "percent of total cases."
The minimum value is 3.2 and it corresponds to "Fraud."
The maximum value is 10.7 and it corresponds to "Impaired driving."
| percent of total cases | |
|---|---|
| Fraud | 3.2 |
| Mischief | 3.6 |
| Drug possession | 4.1 |
| Uttering threats | 4.4 |
| Major assault2 | 5.3 |
| Breach of probation | 8.7 |
| Common assault | 9.3 |
| Fail to comply with order | 9.8 |
| Theft1 | 10.1 |
| Impaired driving | 10.7 |
Includes, for example, theft over and under $5,000 as well as motor vehicle theft.
Includes, for example, assault with a weapon (level 2) and aggravated assault (level 3).
Note(s):
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. Cases that involve more than one charge are represented by the most serious offence. 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(s):
Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Integrated Criminal Court Survey.
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