Table 6
Cases completed in adult criminal court, by type of offence and sex of the accused, Canada, 2014/2015

Table 6
Cases completed in adult criminal court, by type of offence and sex of the accused, Canada, 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), Male and Female, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offenceTable 6 Note 1 Male Female
numberTable 6 Note 2 percent numberTable 6 Note 2 percent
Violent offences 56,805 82 12,460 18
Homicide 182 86 29 14
Attempted murder 114 89 14 11
Robbery 2,403 89 310 11
Sexual assault 2,239 98 46 2
Other sexual offencesTable 6 Note 3 2,715 97 87 3
Major assaultTable 6 Note 4 12,002 77 3,564 23
Common assault 21,036 77 6,166 23
Uttering threats 11,911 88 1,635 12
Criminal harassment 2,178 88 305 12
Other violent offences 2,025 87 304 13
Property offences 51,118 72 19,971 28
TheftTable 6 Note 5 20,788 65 11,076 35
Break and enter 6,755 87 988 13
Fraud 6,391 67 3,181 33
Mischief 9,206 82 1,966 18
Possess stolen property 6,852 73 2,599 27
Other property offences 1,126 87 161 13
Administration of justice offences 54,175 82 12,083 18
Fail to appear 2,756 76 876 24
Breach of probation 21,770 84 4,274 16
Unlawfully at large 1,762 90 200 10
Fail to comply with order 22,823 81 5,224 19
Other administration of justice offences 5,064 77 1,509 23
Other Criminal Code offences 10,626 87 1,639 13
Weapons 7,055 90 793 10
Prostitution 261 84 50 16
Disturbing the peace 847 83 174 17
Residual Criminal Code offences 2,463 80 622 20
Criminal Code (excluding traffic) 172,724 79 46,153 21
Criminal Code traffic offences 32,173 82 6,911 18
Impaired driving 24,832 81 5,822 19
Other Criminal Code traffic offences 7,341 87 1,089 13
Total Criminal Code offences 204,897 79 53,064 21
Other federal statute offences 33,869 85 6,116 15
Drug possession 10,842 85 1,947 15
Other drug offencesTable 6 Note 6 6,456 79 1,671 21
Youth Criminal Justice Act 568 81 132 19
Residual federal statute offences 16,003 87 2,366 13
Total offences 238,766 80 59,180 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, 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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