Description for Chart 6
Guilty cases in adult criminal court, by length of custody sentence, Canada, 2013/2014
The title of the graph is "Chart 6 Guilty cases in adult criminal court, by length of custody sentence, Canada, 2013/2014."
This is a column clustered chart.
There are in total 6 categories in the horizontal axis. The vertical axis starts at 0 and ends at 60 with ticks every 10 points.
There are 1 series in this graph.
The vertical axis is "percent of cases sentenced to custody."
The horizontal axis is "Length of custody sentence ."
The title of series 1 is "percent of cases sentenced to custody."
The minimum value is 3.4 and it corresponds to "2 years or more."
The maximum value is 55.6 and it corresponds to "1 month or less."
| percent of cases sentenced to custody | |
|---|---|
| 1 month or less | 55.6 |
| Greater than 1 month to 3 months | 22.6 |
| Greater than 3 months to 6 months | 9.1 |
| Greater than 6 months to 12 months | 5.7 |
| Greater than 12 months to less than 2 years | 3.6 |
| 2 years or more | 3.4 |
Note(s):
Custodial sentence lengths exclude time spent in custody prior to sentencing and/or the amount of credit awarded for time spent in pre-sentence custody. Excludes cases in which the length of the custody sentence was unknown. 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. Data excludes information from superior courts in Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan as well as municipal courts in Quebec due to the unavailability of data. Length of custody data are not available from Manitoba.
Source(s):
Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Integrated Criminal Court Survey.
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