Table 4
Police-reported incidents by presence of offences against the administration of justice, by incident clearance status, Canada, 2014

Table 4
Police-reported incidents by presence of offences against the administration of justice, by incident clearance status, Canada, 2014
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported incidents by presence of offences against the administration of justice. The information is grouped by Type of incident (appearing as row headers), Cleared by charge, Cleared otherwise and Total cleared, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of incident Cleared by charge Cleared otherwise Total cleared Cleared by charge
number percent
No administration of justice violation in the incident 247,282 252,464 499,746 49.5
Includes Youth Criminal Justice Act violationsNote 1 7,970 791 8,761 91.0
Incident includes an offence against the administration of justice 187,993 17,704 205,697 91.4
Incident includes an offence against the administration of justice and a Youth Criminal Justice Act violation 2,849 42 2,891 98.5
TotalNote 2 446,094 271,001 717,095 62.2
Note 1.

Data represent incidents reported under this statute by police. The Uniform Crime Reporting Survey does not collect or report individual counts of specific offences under these statutes.

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Note 2.

Counts presented on this table represent the number of Criminal Code (excluding traffic) incidents that exclude or include offences against the administration of justice as a first, second, third or fourth violation on the incident record. Data are drawn from the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Survey microdata file, which excludes incidents where the accused and/or victim record for the incident (if applicable) was not available. For this reason, totals may not match other tables in this report, where data are drawn from the UCR aggregate file.

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Note: Includes incidents that were either cleared by charged or cleared otherwise. Excludes offences that have not been cleared. Offences against the administration of justice include: Failure to comply with conditions, escape custody, prisoner unlawfully at large, failure to attend court, breach of probation, and other offences against the administration of law and justice (Part IV C.C.). Specific Youth Criminal Justice Act violations are not included as offences against the administration of justice.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Microdata Survey.
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