Table 4
Prostitution-related court cases, by adult and youth cases, Canada, 2008/2009 to 2013/2014
| Criminal Code section | 2008/2009 | 2009/2010 | 2010/2011 | 2011/2012 | 2012/2013 | 2013/2014 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adult | Youth | Adult | Youth | Adult | Youth | Adult | Youth | Adult | Youth | Adult | Youth | |
| number of court cases | ||||||||||||
| Householder permitting sexual activity of person under 18 (s. 171) | 3 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 7 | 1 |
| Keeping common bawdy-house (s. 210) | 150 | 0 | 178 | 1 | 139 | 2 | 109 | 1 | 79 | 1 | 79 | 0 |
| Transporting person to bawdy-house (s. 211) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Total procuring offences | 87 | 3 | 87 | 1 | 101 | 4 | 106 | 2 | 151 | 3 | 122 | 8 |
| Procuring (s. 212(1)) | 55 | 3 | 65 | 1 | 81 | 3 | 76 | 2 | 97 | 1 | 78 | 6 |
| Living on the avails of prostitution of person under 18 (s. 212(2) & 212(2.1)) | 10 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 16 | 1 | 17 | 2 |
| Prostitution of person under 18 (s. 212(4)) | 18 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 15 | 0 | 38 | 1 | 25 | 0 |
| Parent or guardian procuring sexual activity of person under 18 (s. 170) | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Communicating/stopping or impeding traffic for the purposes of obtaining or providing sexual services (s. 213) | 1,391 | 13 | 1,448 | 8 | 1,336 | 8 | 820 | 1 | 654 | 2 | 694 | 2 |
| Total | 1,632 | 17 | 1,719 | 10 | 1,584 | 14 | 1,040 | 5 | 896 | 6 | 903 | 11 |
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Note: Includes court cases where a prostitution-related offence was the most serious offence in the case. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Integrated Criminal Court Survey. |
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