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Completed charges and cases related to human trafficking in adult criminal courts, Canada, 2013/2014 to 2023/2024

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number 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 2013/2014 2015/2016 2017/2018 2019/2020 2021/2022 2023/2024 Charges of human traffickingCharges of human trafficking Cases with at least one human trafficking chargeCases with at least one human trafficking charge
Note(s):
Data are based on the adult criminal court portion of the survey, where accused persons were aged 18 and older at the time of the offence. This chart 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, because of data availability. Data for Quebec were not available for 2021/2022, 2022/2023 and 2023/2024. 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, 2013/2014 to 2023/2024, number
  Charges of human trafficking Cases with at least one human trafficking charge
2013/2014 142 46
2014/2015 210 82
2015/2016 323 105
2016/2017 455 131
2017/2018 466 140
2018/2019 386 115
2019/2020 438 136
2020/2021 431 128
2021/2022 632 151
2022/2023 497 135
2023/2024 484 112
Note(s):
Data are based on the adult criminal court portion of the survey, where accused persons were aged 18 and older at the time of the offence. This chart 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, because of data availability. Data for Quebec were not available for 2021/2022, 2022/2023 and 2023/2024. Superior court data for Prince Edward Island were included as of 2018/2019.
Source(s):
Integrated Criminal Court Survey (3312).
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