Cumulative prevalence of different types of offenders

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Figure 16 shows the development of the cumulative prevalence of persons apprehended for offences against the person and property, and other offences.1The shapes of the curves are similar to the overall cumulative prevalence curve (Figure 12), with property offenders, as usual, being more numerous. By 17 years of age, 6.2% of the 1987 cohort had been apprehended in connection with an offence against the person; 12.2% for a property offence; and 6.2% for an other offence. The trajectories for boys and girls (not shown) are similar to the overall trajectory, except that the cumulative prevalences by the age of 17 are relatively high for male "other" offenders and for female property offenders. By the age of 17, the proportions of boys born in 1987 who had been identified as person, property and other offenders are 9.0%, 15.7%, and 9.7% respectively. In other words, by the age of 17, one in every six boys born in 1987 had been identified as a property offender, one in 11 as an offender against the person, and one in 10 as an "other" offender. For girls, the corresponding proportions are 3.2%, 8.5%, and 2.5%.

Figure 16 The cumulative proportions of recorded offenders, by the age of the offender and the type of most serious offence, 5 to 17 years. Opens a new browser window.

Figure 16
The cumulative proportions of recorded offenders, by the age of the offender and the type of most serious offence, 5 to 17 years

Note

  1. "Other" offences include other Criminal Code offences, drug offences, and violations of other federal statutes (see Appendix Table A.1).