Table 9
Youth and adults accused of firearm-related violent crime, by province and territory, Canada, 2012

Table 9
Youth and adults accused of firearm-related violent crime, by province and territory, Canada, 2012
Table summary
This table displays the results of Youth and adults accused of firearm-related violent crime. The information is grouped by Province or territory (appearing as row headers), Youth accused, Adult accused and Total accused persons, calculated using number, rate and percent of accused persons units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Province or territory Youth accusedNote 1 Adult accused Total accused persons
number rateNote 2 percent of accused persons number rateNote 3 percent of accused persons number rateNote 4 percent of accused persons
Newfoundland and Labrador 12 36.0 19.0 51 12.2 81.0 63 14.0 100
Prince Edward Island 3 27.4 37.5 5 4.3 62.5 8 6.3 100
Nova Scotia 45 72.3 25.4 132 17.1 74.6 177 21.3 100
New Brunswick 18 36.0 14.0 111 18.2 86.0 129 19.5 100
Quebec ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
Ontario 390 41.0 26.0 1,108 10.4 74.0 1,498 12.9 100
Manitoba 75 77.2 26.6 207 21.9 73.4 282 27.1 100
Saskatchewan 67 81.9 21.1 251 30.9 78.9 318 35.6 100
Alberta 107 39.2 15.2 598 19.9 84.8 705 21.5 100
British Columbia 70 23.2 13.5 450 12.1 86.5 520 12.9 100
Yukon 0 0.0 0.0 8 27.9 100.0 8 25.7 100
Northwest Territories 6 169.3 18.8 26 81.0 81.3 32 89.8 100
Nunavut 5 123.5 10.4 43 204.5 89.6 48 191.4 100
Provincial and territorial total 798 42.7 21.1 2,990 14.1 78.9 3,788 16.5 100
... not applicable
Note 1.

Youth refers to accused persons between the ages of 12 and 17.

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Note 2.

Rates are calculated per 100,000 youth population using revised July 1st population estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division.

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Note 3.

Rates are calculated per 100,000 adult population using revised July 1st population estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division.

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Note 4.

Rates are calculated per 100,000 youth and adult population using revised July 1st population estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division.

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Note: Excludes Quebec due to a large proportion of incidents where the most serious weapon present was reported as unknown. Excludes accused persons whose age was reported as unknown.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR2) Survey.
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