Table 6
Police-reported administration of justice charges laid or recommended against youth, Canada, 2014

Table 6
Police-reported administration of justice charges laid or recommended against youth, Canada, 2014
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported administration of justice charges laid or recommended against youth Males charged, Females charged, Total charged and Total not charged, calculated using number and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
  Males charged Females charged Total charged Total not charged
number rate number rate number rate number rate
Total chargesNote 1 31,781 2,637 10,414 915 42,195 1,800 51,950 2,216
Offences against the administration of justice 7,126 591 2,915 256 10,041 428 1,780 76
Failure to comply with conditions 4,880 405 2,074 182 6,954 297 942 40
Escape custody 126 10 13 1 139 6 9 0
Prisoner unlawfully at large 93 8 12 1 105 4 9 0
Failure to attend court 894 74 446 39 1,340 57 51 2
Breach of probationNote 2 1,013 84 292 26 1,305 56 459 20
Other offences against the administration of law and justice (Part IV C.C.) 120 10 78 7 198 8 310 13
Youth Criminal Justice ActNote 3 2,709 225 1,084 95 3,793 162 592 25
Note 1.

Excludes traffic offences.

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Note 2.

Instances of charges of breach of probation against youth are generally reported to the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey under the Youth Criminal Justice Act (see footnote 3). Breach of probation data reported here may represent data that have been misreported by police services.

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Note 3.

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: Data on youth charged and youth not charged may include a small number of people under the age of 12. 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.). Offences reported by police as Youth Criminal Justice Act violations are not included as part of administration of justice offence counts or rates. Rates are calculated per 100,000 population using revised July 1st population estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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