Table 4
Cases completed in adult criminal court, by type of offence and sex of the accused, Canada, 2013/2014

Table 4
Cases completed in adult criminal court, by type of offence and sex of the accused, Canada, 2013/2014
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), Male and Female, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offenceNote 1 Male Female
numberNote 2 percent numberNote 2 percent
Violent offences 63,445 82 13,720 18
Homicide 196 87.5 28 12.5
Attempted murder 156 88 22 12
Robbery 2,723 89 353 11
Sexual assault 2,638 99 38 1
Other sexual offencesNote 3 2,966 97 106 3
Major assaultNote 4 13,359 78 3,802 22
Common assault 24,054 78 6,977 22
Uttering threats 12,793 88 1,686 12
Criminal harassment 2,480 87 360 13
Other violent offences 2,080 86 348 14
Property offences 55,676 72 21,326 28
TheftNote 5 22,247 65 12,059 35
Break and enter 7,721 88 1,028 12
Fraud 7,084 67 3,469 33
Mischief 10,204 83 2,042 17
Possess stolen property 7,266 74 2,567 26
Other property offences 1,154 88 161 12
Administration of justice offences 59,912 82 13,329 18
Fail to appear 3,195 75 1,046 25
Breach of probation 23,118 83 4,596 17
Unlawfully at large 1,888 91 193 9
Fail to comply with order 25,905 82 5,874 18
Other administration of justice offences 5,806 78 1,620 22
Other Criminal Code offences 11,684 86 1,861 14
Weapons 7,317 90 792 10
Prostitution 588 71 235 29
Disturbing the peace 1,021 81 243 19
Residual Criminal Code offences 2,758 82 591 18
Criminal Code (excluding traffic) 190,717 79 50,236 21
Criminal Code traffic offences 37,231 83 7,844 17
Impaired driving 29,238 81 6,716 19
Other Criminal Code traffic offences 7,993 88 1,128 12
Total Criminal Code offences 227,948 80 58,080 20
Other federal statute offences 37,195 85 6,548 15
Drug possession 12,236 86 2,071 14
Other drug offencesNote 6 7,414 80 1,882 20
Youth Criminal Justice Act 720 81 166 19
Residual federal statute offences 16,825 87 2,429 13
Total offences 265,143 80 64,628 20
Note 1.

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

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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.

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Note 3.

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

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Note 4.

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

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Note 5.

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

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Note 6.

Includes drug trafficking, production, importing and exporting.

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Note: Includes information on accused persons aged 18 years or over at the time of the offence. Data excludes cases in which the age and/or the sex of the accused was unknown. Excludes 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. Information on the sex of the accused is not available from Manitoba.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Integrated Criminal Court Survey.
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