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Completed charges and cases related to human trafficking in adult criminal courts, Canada, 2012/2013 to 2022/2023

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number 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 2012/2013 2014/2015 2016/2017 2018/2019 2020/2021 2022/2023 Cases with at least one human trafficking chargeCases with at least one human trafficking charge Charges of human traffickingCharges of human trafficking
Note(s):
Data are based on the adult criminal court portion of the survey where accused were aged 18 years and older at the time of offence. Includes Criminal Code charges and cases only, excluding Immigration and Refugee Protection Act offences. A case involves 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 exclude information from superior courts in Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan, as well as municipal courts in Quebec, due to data availability. Data for Quebec were not available for 2021/2022 and 2022/2023. Superior court data for Prince Edward Island were included as of 2018/2019.
Source(s):
Integrated Criminal Court Survey (3312).

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Completed charges and cases related to human trafficking in adult criminal courts, Canada, 2012/2013 to 2022/2023, number
  Cases with at least one human trafficking charge Charges of human trafficking
2012/2013 28 65
2013/2014 46 142
2014/2015 82 210
2015/2016 105 323
2016/2017 131 455
2017/2018 140 466
2018/2019 115 386
2019/2020 136 438
2020/2021 128 431
2021/2022 151 632
2022/2023 122 452
Note(s):
Data are based on the adult criminal court portion of the survey where accused were aged 18 years and older at the time of offence. Includes Criminal Code charges and cases only, excluding Immigration and Refugee Protection Act offences. A case involves 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 exclude information from superior courts in Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan, as well as municipal courts in Quebec, due to data availability. Data for Quebec were not available for 2021/2022 and 2022/2023. Superior court data for Prince Edward Island were included as of 2018/2019.
Source(s):
Integrated Criminal Court Survey (3312).
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