Table 3
Cases completed in adult criminal court, by type of offence, Canada, 2013/2014 and 2014/2015

Table 3
Cases completed in adult criminal court, by type of offence, Canada, 2013/2014 and 2014/2015
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), 2013/2014, 2014/2015, Percent change in number of cases 2013/2014 to 2014/2015 and Difference in median length of cases 2013/2014 to 2014/2015, calculated using number, median length of case (days), percent and days units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offenceTable 3 Note 1 2013/2014 2014/2015 Percent change in number of cases 2013/2014 to 2014/2015 Difference in median length of cases 2013/2014 to 2014/2015
numberTable 3 Note 2 median length of case (days)Table 3 Note 3 numberTable 3 Note 2 median length of case (days)Table 3 Note 3 percent days
Violent offences 87,887 174 76,888 176 -13 2
Homicide 278 451 236 493 -15 42
Attempted murder 202 317 137 322 -32 5
Robbery 3,669 224 3,028 242 -17 18
Sexual assault 3,135 324 2,586 310 -18 -14
Other sexual offencesTable 3 Note 4 3,661 309 3,204 321 -12 12
Major assaultTable 3 Note 5 20,009 199 17,531 199 -12 0
Common assault 34,169 135 29,867 141 -13 6
Uttering threats 16,546 162 14,863 160 -10 -2
Criminal harassment 3,325 168 2,808 178 -16 10
Other violent offences 2,893 228 2,628 222 -9 -6
Property offences 85,300 107 76,356 104 -10 -3
TheftTable 3 Note 6 37,522 76 34,001 71 -9 -5
Break and enter 10,388 178 8,569 173 -18 -5
Fraud 11,963 175 10,470 169 -12 -6
Mischief 13,248 113 11,951 112 -10 -1
Possess stolen property 10,636 102 9,977 99 -6 -3
Other property offences 1,543 151 1,388 155 -10 4
Administration of justice offences 84,213 78 74,811 73 -11 -5
Fail to appear 4,497 72 3,769 76 -16 4
Breach of probation 32,035 64 29,626 62 -8 -2
Unlawfully at large 2,642 13 2,470 13 -7 0
Fail to comply with order 36,362 85 31,544 83 -13 -2
Other administration of justice offences 8,677 135 7,402 127 -15 -8
Other Criminal Code offences 16,341 170 13,843 169 -15 -1
Weapons 9,600 178 8,713 171 -9 -7
Prostitution 924 111 355 190 -62 79
Disturbing the peace 1,338 61 1,094 65 -18 4
Residual Criminal Code offences 4,479 224 3,681 212 -18 -12
Criminal Code (excluding traffic) 273,741 121 241,898 120 -12 -1
Criminal Code traffic offences 54,666 161 42,165 126 -23 -35
Impaired driving 44,476 155 33,121 105 -26 -50
Other Criminal Code traffic offences 10,190 175 9,044 176 -11 1
Total Criminal Code offences 328,407 126 284,063 120 -14 -6
Other federal statute offences 50,650 135 43,965 134 -13 -1
Drug possession 15,072 88 13,375 92 -11 4
Other drug offencesTable 3 Note 7 10,434 256 8,825 259 -15 3
Youth Criminal Justice Act 1,136 48 886 54 -22 6
Residual federal statute offences 24,008 148 20,879 135 -13 -13
Total offences 379,057 127 328,028 121 -13 -6
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.

Case lengths are calculated based on the number of days it takes to complete a case, from first appearance to final decision. The median is the point at which half of all cases had longer case lengths and half had shorter case lengths. Excludes cases in which the case length was unknown.

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Note 4.

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 5.

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

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Note 6.

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

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Note 7.

Includes drug trafficking, production, importing and exporting.

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Note: Data exclude information from superior courts in Prince Edward Island, Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan as well as municipal courts in Quebec due to the unavailability of data.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Integrated Criminal Court Survey.
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