Analysis

Description: This Juristat article builds on previous work on gender-related homicide in Canada by using multiple linked data sources to examine victim characteristics over a 14-year period (2009 to 2022). Using data linking the Homicide Survey to the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, it first examines prior police-reported violence among homicide victims before exploring their demographic and socioeconomic profiles using linked data from education, immigration, health, and tax records.

Description: Key statistics about crime in Canada are presented in this infographic. Findings on changes to the Crime Severity Index (CSI) at the national and provincial, territorial levels are presented. Also included are the categories of crime which were reported in 2025.

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

Description: This Juristat article presents an analysis of the nature and prevalence of mass casualty events, which are intentional acts of violence where four or more victims sustained some level of physical injury or were killed as part of the same incident. Using police-reported data from the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, characteristics of incidents, victims and accused persons are discussed. Throughout this article, information about overall violent crime reported by police—where a victim record was provided—is also provided for comparison.

Description: This article, which is based on data from the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Survey and the Homicide Survey, presents key trends in crime rates and the Crime Severity Index (CSI) for police-reported crime in rural areas of the Canadian provinces. This is an update of the Juristat article entitled “Police-reported crime in rural and urban areas in the Canadian provinces, 2021”.

Description: This infographic, which is based on data from the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Survey and the Homicide Survey, presents key trends in crime rates and the Crime Severity Index (CSI) for police-reported crime in rural areas of the Canadian provinces.

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

Description: Using data from the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey and the Homicide Survey, this infographic presents the most recent trends in firearm-related violent crime, as well as certain characteristics of these incidents, their victims and the persons accused.

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

Description: This Juristat article focuses on overall patterns of violence in the 12 months preceding the 2025 Survey of Safety in Public and Private Spaces, with a particular attention to the relationship between gender and the type, nature, severity, and prevalence of violence. This analysis serves as a general overview of experiences of physical and sexual violence and unwanted behaviours in Canada, presenting key findings and highlighting changes since 2018.

Description: Key statistics about crime in Canada are presented in this infographic. Findings on changes to the Crime Severity Index (CSI) at the national and provincial, territorial levels are presented. Also included are the categories of crime which were reported in 2025.

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

Description: This infographic, which is based on data from the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Survey and the Homicide Survey, presents key trends in crime rates and the Crime Severity Index (CSI) for police-reported crime in rural areas of the Canadian provinces.

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

Description: Using data from the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey and the Homicide Survey, this infographic presents the most recent trends in firearm-related violent crime, as well as certain characteristics of these incidents, their victims and the persons accused.

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

Description: Using police-reported data from the 2024 Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Survey, this infographic is a visual representation of some of these data. Findings include results at the national, provincial, and territorial levels. Also included are findings related to the type and motivation of hate crimes committed in Canada, as well as the most serious violations reported in each incident.

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

Description: This Juristat article builds on previous work on gender-related homicide in Canada by using multiple linked data sources to examine victim characteristics over a 14-year period (2009 to 2022). Using data linking the Homicide Survey to the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, it first examines prior police-reported violence among homicide victims before exploring their demographic and socioeconomic profiles using linked data from education, immigration, health, and tax records.

Description: This Juristat article presents an analysis of the nature and prevalence of mass casualty events, which are intentional acts of violence where four or more victims sustained some level of physical injury or were killed as part of the same incident. Using police-reported data from the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, characteristics of incidents, victims and accused persons are discussed. Throughout this article, information about overall violent crime reported by police—where a victim record was provided—is also provided for comparison.

Description: This article, which is based on data from the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Survey and the Homicide Survey, presents key trends in crime rates and the Crime Severity Index (CSI) for police-reported crime in rural areas of the Canadian provinces. This is an update of the Juristat article entitled “Police-reported crime in rural and urban areas in the Canadian provinces, 2021”.

Description: This Juristat article focuses on overall patterns of violence in the 12 months preceding the 2025 Survey of Safety in Public and Private Spaces, with a particular attention to the relationship between gender and the type, nature, severity, and prevalence of violence. This analysis serves as a general overview of experiences of physical and sexual violence and unwanted behaviours in Canada, presenting key findings and highlighting changes since 2018.

Description: Online child sexual exploitation captures a wide range of criminal offences involving victims aged 17 or younger. These include, for example, luring, invitation to sexual touching, non-consensual distribution of intimate images, as well as online child sexual abuse and exploitation material offences. Using police-reported data from the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, this Juristat article explores the prevalence and nature of online child sexual exploitation incidents reported by police in 2024. In addition, data from the Integrated Criminal Court Survey are used to examine the number and types of cases involving sexual offences against children likely facilitated online that were completed in adult criminal court and youth court from 2014/2015 to 2023/2024.

Description: Using data from the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey and the Integrated Criminal Court Survey, this article examines the most recent trends in crimes related to the sex trade in Canada. Incident, accused and victim characteristics are examined, as are court case outcomes. Findings are primarily presented using two five-year periods of data to highlight trend similarities and differences between the period that immediately followed 2014 legislative changes (2015 to 2019) and more recent years (2020 to 2024).

Description: This Juristat article uses police-reported data from the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey to examine re-offending patterns among accused persons living in rural areas of the provinces who came into contact with police in 2014. This analysis examines several key dimensions related to re-contact with police, including the prevalence of re-contact, frequency of re-contact, time to re-contact and nature of re-contact over a nine-year reference period.

Description: Using data from the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, this study examines police-reported drug offences in Canada over time, including possession, trafficking, importation and exportation, production, and other crimes. It also discusses clearance status trends and characteristics of persons accused of drug crime.

Description: This comparative analysis of crime trends in Canada and United States uses police-reported data from the Uniform Crime Reporting programs in both countries, focusing on trends from 1998 to 2023. In doing so, this study provides a better understanding of the similarities and differences in patterns in police-reported crime for the two neighbouring countries over time, as well as insight into the characteristics of crimes in Canada and the United States (e.g., use of firearms in violent crime).

Description: Using data from the Uniform Crime Reporting programs in Canada and the United States, this study examines the prevalence of police-reported crime for specific regions within each country and how these patterns may vary between the two countries. Besides examining broader geographic regions, it also compares police-reported crime at more specific levels of geography, namely between urban and rural areas, as well as across the largest metropolitan areas.

Description: This article presents results from the first Survey of Sexual Misconduct in the Canadian Armed Forces. Namely, the prevalence of general sexualized behaviour in the workplace; discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity; personal experiences of discrimination or sexualized behaviour; the prevalence of sexual assault; and knowledge of policies on sexual misconduct and perceptions of responses to sexual misconduct are examined. Where possible, results are analyzed by sex, environmental command, type of service, age, rank, and number of years of service.

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This report provides an overview of the first available data on business fraud in Canada focusing on businesses in the retail, banking and insurance sectors. Data used in this report are from the Survey of Fraud against Businesses, 2007-2008. The Survey of Fraud against Businesses provides national-level data on the prevalence and types of fraud experienced, how businesses respond to incidents of fraud, the monetary and non-monetary costs of fraud and fraud detection and prevention practices.

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This report introduces the Crime Severity Index, a new tool for measuring police-reported crime in Canada that for the first time tracks changes in the severity of crime, not just volume.The report also examines how crime is measured in Canada, as well as recent improvements to statistics on crime that are gathered from the police.

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This feasibility report provides a blueprint for improving data on fraud in Canada through a survey of businesses and through amendments to the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Survey. Presently, national information on fraud is based on official crime statistics reported by police services to the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey. These data, however, do not reflect the true nature and extent of fraud in Canada due to under-reporting of fraud by individuals and businesses, and due to inconsistencies in the way frauds are counted within the UCR Survey. This feasibility report concludes that a better measurement of fraud in Canada could be obtained through a survey of businesses. The report presents the information priorities of government departments, law enforcement and the private sector with respect to the issue of fraud and makes recommendations on how a survey of businesses could help fulfill these information needs.

To respond to information priorities, the study recommends surveying the following types of business establishments: banks, payment companies (i.e. credit card and debit card companies), selected retailers, property and casualty insurance carriers, health and disability insurance carriers and selected manufacturers. The report makes recommendations regarding survey methodology and questionnaire content, and provides estimates for timeframes and cost.

The report also recommends changes to the UCR Survey in order to improve the way in which incidents are counted and to render the data collected more relevant with respect to the information priorities raised by government, law enforcement and the private sector during the feasibility study.

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This report looks at the influence of organized theft rings on the trends and numbers of stolen vehicles in Canada.

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Cyber-crime is a global problem that in many instances transcends national borders. Historically, compiling meaningful statistics about this activity has been difficult because of the reluctance on the part of victims to report these offences to police. However, because of the financial losses sustained, an increasing number of these crimes are being reported to police. As a result, federal, provincial and territorial governments, as well as the police community, are interested in analyzing national trends on cyber-crime and their impact on Canadians.

In response to this need for information, the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics (CCJS) conducted a Special Study to examine the issues and data sources related to cyber-crime and to investigate the feasibility of collecting quantitative data from police services in Canada. This report examines definitions of cyber-crime, current legislation in Canada and other countries, existing data sources, summarizes results from consultations with selected police forces, and presents options for collecting cyber-crime data from police agencies.

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In January 1999, the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics (CCJS) received a commitment of four years funding from the federal government's Policy Research Initiative (PRI) to conduct a study on hate crime in Canada. The purpose of the overall study is to enhance our understanding of hate crime and to assess the feasibility of collecting police-reported hate crime statistics in Canada. In 2001, the CCJS released a report entitled "Hate crime in Canada: an overview of issues and data sources", catalogue no. 85-551-XIE.

This report helped to address some questions regarding the nature and magnitude of hate crimes in Canada, although certain data gaps were identified. As a result, it was determined that a pilot survey should be conducted with police departments that collect hate crime statistics. In order to determine specific information needs for the pilot survey, consultations were held with a number of academics; members of various non-governmental and community organizations; and federal and provincial departments responsible for the administration of justice, as well as police departments.

The information contained in this report provides a summary of the consultations that were held between September 2001 and March 2002.

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Recognizing that there is the need for better information and statistics on organized crime, and for methodologies to measure its impact on Canadians, the federal, provincial and territorial ministers responsible for Justice have endorsed a plan to begin addressing Canada's data gap in the area of organized crime.

The Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics was contracted by the Solicitor General of Canada to investigate the feasibility of collecting quantitative data on organized crime. This report highlights the lessons learned during consultations with selected police intelligence units and it presents a number of options for data collection.

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A comparison of crime rates between Canada and the United States is often sought by the media, researchers, and policy makers. Recognizing this demand, along with the methodological complexities, the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics has undertaken the task of assessing the feasibility of comparing police reported statistics between these two countries. This report compares and contrasts the specific offence definitions, classification, and scoring rules of the Canadian and American Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) surveys. Offences are organized according to the type of survey (aggregate versus incident based) and level of analysis (incident level and accused level). Where applicable, the discussion notes modifications that could allow for reliable cross-national comparisons. The report also briefly discusses the potential of comparing detailed offence characteristics.

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This report describes some pertinent issues of hate crime: previous findings, international comparisons, recent initiatives, current data sources, and a description of police resources. It also includes findings from the 1999 General Social Survey, which measured self-reported hate crime victimization incidents at the national level.