Table 4
Criminal court cases involving serious assaults, adults and youth, 2006/2007
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| Type of assault | number of cases | number guilty | percent guilty | Most serious sentence | ||||||
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| Custody | Probation | Other2 | ||||||||
| number | percent | average length (days)1 | number | percent | number | percent | ||||
| Adults (18 years and older) | ||||||||||
| Assault (level 1) | 40,957 | 21,837 | 53.3 | 3,519 | 16.1 | 53 | 14,169 | 64.9 | 4,149 | 19.0 |
| Assault with a weapon or causing bodily harm (level 2) | 14,123 | 7,091 | 50.2 | 2,892 | 40.8 | 145 | 2,761 | 38.9 | 1,438 | 20.3 |
| Aggravated assault (level 3) | 1,211 | 628 | 51.9 | 431 | 68.6 | 618 | 46 | 7.3 | 151 | 24.0 |
| Assault against peace officers3 | 3,665 | 2,700 | 73.7 | 1,103 | 40.9 | 47 | 950 | 35.2 | 647 | 24.0 |
| Youth (12 to 17 years) | ||||||||||
| Assault (level 1) | 5,682 | 3,404 | 59.9 | 341 | 10.0 | 38 | 1,882 | 55.3 | 1,181 | 34.7 |
| Assault with a weapon or causing bodily harm (level 2) | 2,640 | 1,691 | 64.1 | 285 | 16.9 | 80 | 942 | 55.7 | 464 | 27.4 |
| Aggravated assault (level 3) | 254 | 148 | 58.3 | 83 | 56.1 | 208 | 32 | 21.6 | 33 | 22.3 |
| Assault against peace officers3 | 488 | 352 | 72.1 | 54 | 15.3 | 37 | 194 | 55.1 | 104 | 29.5 |
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1. Excludes cases where length of prison was unknown, and cases where the length was specified as indeterminant. Cases sentenced to life imprisonment were coded as 9,125 days (25 years) for the calculation of sentence length means. Time in custody prior to sentencing is taken into consideration when imposing a sentence. However, the length of time in custody prior to sentencing and the extent to which it influences the sanction imposed are not available from the survey. 2. Includes conditional sentences, fines, restitution, deferred custody and supervision, intensive support and supervision, non-residential programs, community service orders, reprimands, suspended sentences, conditional discharges, absolute discharges and all other sanctions not listed above. 3. Peace officers include police officers, correctional officers, bailiffs, justices of the peace and municipal by-law officers and others who are employed for the maintenance of public peace. Note: Data represent the most recent information available. In 2006/2007, data were received from all provinces and territories representing approximately 95% of the national adult criminal court caseload and 100% of the youth criminal court caseload. A case is one or more charges against an accused person or corporation, where all of the charges in the case have received a final disposition. It includes all charges against the same person where there are common overlapping key court dates. Data represent the most serious charge in the case. In multiple-charge cases, the charge with the most serious decision is used to represent the case. Decisions are ranked from the most to the least serious as follows: guilty, guilty of a lesser offence, found guilty but not convicted (e.g., absolute or conditional discharge), acquitted, stay of proceeding, withdrawn, dismissed and discharged, not criminally responsible, other and transfer of court jurisdiction. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Integrated Criminal Court Survey. |
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