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Table 19
Police-reported youth crime, by selected violent offences, by province or territory, 2018

Table 19
Police-reported crime for selected offences, by province or territory, 2018
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported youth crime. The information is grouped by Province or territory (appearing as row headers), Homicide, Sexual assault (level 1, 2 and 3), Major assault (level 2 and 3) and Common assault, calculated using number, rate and percent change in rate 2017 to 2018 units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Province or territory	Homicide^{Table 19 Note 1}		Sexual assault (level 1, 2 and 3)		Major assault (level 2 and 3)^{Table 19 Note 2}		Common assault
Province or territory	number	rate	rate	percent change in rate 2017 to 2018^{Table 19 Note 3}	rate	percent change in rate 2017 to 2018^{Table 19 Note 3}	rate	percent change in rate 2017 to 2018^{Table 19 Note 3}
Newfoundland and Labrador	0	0.00	85	83	203	6	693	-2
Prince Edward Island	0	0.00	79	-43	49	-38	356	-34
Nova Scotia	0	0.00	107	34	195	18	717	-8
New Brunswick	0	0.00	130	18	156	-1	742	16
Quebec	2	0.41	136	29	162	-4	539	0^sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded
Ontario	24	2.53	89	-2	140	-8	436	-2
Manitoba	4	4.04	121	2	540	6	1,059	-1
Saskatchewan	1	1.19	120	14	454	-5	869	-1
Alberta	4	1.34	83	17	208	2	499	1
British Columbia	2	0.67	63	0	112	-3	357	2
Yukon	0	0.00	80	Note ...: not applicable	681	54	2,164	-29
Northwest Territories	0	0.00	539	40	419	-61	3,445	21
Nunavut	0	0.00	272	55	643	11	1,855	-38
Canada	37	1.56	99	10	181	-3	521	-1

Table 19 continued
Police-reported youth crime, by selected violent offences, by province or territory, 2018
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported youth crime. The information is grouped by Province or territory (appearing as row headers), Robbery, Sexual violations against children, Total violent crime and Total crime (youth crime rate), calculated using rate and percent change in rate 2017 to 2018 units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Province or territory	Robbery		Sexual violations against children^{Table 19 Note 4}^{Table 19 Note 5}		Total violent crime^{Table 19 Note 6}		Total crime (youth crime rate)^{Table 19 Note 7}
Province or territory	rate	percent change in rate 2017 to 2018^{Table 19 Note 3}	rate	percent change in rate 2017 to 2018^{Table 19 Note 3}	rate	percent change in rate 2017 to 2018^{Table 19 Note 3}	rate	percent change in rate 2017 to 2018^{Table 19 Note 3}
Newfoundland and Labrador	38	35	57	7	1,438	-7	3,797	-14
Prince Edward Island	20	Note ...: not applicable	59	Note ...: not applicable	831	-19	2,166	-15
Nova Scotia	93	24	39	-21	1,558	-8	3,861	-19
New Brunswick	30	28	47	11	1,471	5	3,450	-8
Quebec	81	-4	96	11	1,571	2	3,132	-3
Ontario	157	-16	27	-14	1,121	-6	2,733	-13
Manitoba	236	7	84	13	2,533	-1	6,526	-11
Saskatchewan	130	-24	63	-11	2,214	-7	7,947	-23
Alberta	126	52	40	3	1,245	1	3,754	-5
British Columbia	48	-1	24	-30	809	-5	2,474	-8
Yukon	80	Note ...: not applicable	0	Note ...: not applicable	3,928	-13	15,752	-15
Northwest Territories	150	Note ...: not applicable	0	Note ...: not applicable	5,722	2	21,600	-2
Nunavut	25	Note ...: not applicable	173	-37	4,131	-16	17,339	-9
Canada	119	-5	48	-2	1,323	-3	3,372	-10
... not applicable 0^s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded Note 1 Due to the variability in small numbers, percent changes in the rates of youth accused of homicide are not calculated. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Excludes assault against a peace officer. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Due to the variability in small numbers, percent changes have not been calculated when the number of offenders is below five in any given year. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 Excludes sexual assaults against children and youth, which are reported as level 1, 2 or 3 sexual assault. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 Includes sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching, sexual exploitation, luring a child via telecommunications/agreement or arrangement, making sexually explicit material available to a child for the purpose of facilitating sexual offences against children/youth and the offences of parent or guardian procuring sexual activity, householder permitting prohibited sexual activity, agreement or arrangement of a sexual offence against a child, and bestiality in the presence of or inciting a child (s. 160(3)). Incidents of child pornography are not included in the category of sexual violations against children. Return to note 5 referrer Note 6 See Table 14 for a list of offences included in the total violent crime category. Return to note 6 referrer Note 7 Crime rates are based upon Criminal Code incidents, excluding traffic offences. See Table 14 for a list of offences included in the violent crime, property crime and other Criminal Code offence categories. Return to note 7 referrer Note: Data is based on the number of youth aged 12 to 17 years who were either charged (or recommended for charging) by police or diverted from the formal criminal justice system through the use of warnings, cautions, referrals to community programs, etc. Counts are based upon the most serious violation in the incident. One incident may involve multiple violations. While the definition of youth and the legislation governing youth justice have changed over the years, data for police-reported rates of youth accused of total, violent, property and other crime categories are available from 1977. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 youth population. Percent changes are based on unrounded rates. Populations are based on July 1st estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.

Date modified:: 2019-07-22