Table 2
Cases by age of accused, adult criminal court, Canada, 2006/2007

Warning View the most recent version.

Archived Content

Information identified as archived is provided for reference, research or recordkeeping purposes. It is not subject to the Government of Canada Web Standards and has not been altered or updated since it was archived. Please "contact us" to request a format other than those available.

Offence category

Total cases

Age group

18 to 24

25 to 34

35 to 44

45 to 54

55 plus

number

number

percent

number

percent

number

percent

number

percent

number

percent

Total offences

361,805

111,204

30.7

99,400

27.5

86,953

24.0

45,944

12.7

18,304

5.1

Criminal Code total

319,430

95,145

29.8

88,727

27.8

78,517

24.6

40,972

12.8

16,069

5.0

Crimes against the person

89,369

23,031

25.8

25,473

28.5

24,065

26.9

12,150

13.6

4,650

5.2

Homicide

272

124

45.6

74

27.2

47

17.3

14

5.1

13

4.8

Attempted murder

218

77

35.3

72

33.0

34

15.6

23

10.6

12

5.5

Robbery

4,160

1,969

47.3

1,149

27.6

757

18.2

253

6.1

32

0.8

Sexual assault

3,016

646

21.4

779

25.8

803

26.6

478

15.8

310

10.3

Other sexual offences

1,446

215

14.9

373

25.8

440

30.4

239

16.5

179

12.4

Major assault

19,013

6,178

32.5

5,461

28.7

4,397

23.1

2,166

11.4

811

4.3

Common assault

40,021

9,349

23.4

11,629

29.1

11,352

28.4

5,655

14.1

2,036

5.1

Uttering threats

15,920

3,340

21.0

4,460

28.0

4,651

29.2

2,525

15.9

944

5.9

Criminal harassment

2,760

455

16.5

720

26.1

869

31.5

499

18.1

217

7.9

Other crimes against the person

2,543

678

26.7

756

29.7

715

28.1

298

11.7

96

3.8

Crimes against property

88,154

29,726

33.7

24,264

27.5

20,769

23.6

10,045

11.4

3,350

3.8

Theft

36,626

10,481

28.6

9,471

25.9

9,419

25.7

5,290

14.4

1,965

5.4

Break and enter

11,421

4,826

42.3

3,208

28.1

2,445

21.4

792

6.9

150

1.3

Fraud

14,556

4,239

29.1

4,603

31.6

3,680

25.3

1,576

10.8

458

3.1

Mischief

12,038

5,039

41.9

3,171

26.3

2,398

19.9

1,081

9.0

349

2.9

Possess stolen property

12,777

4,818

37.7

3,617

28.3

2,697

21.1

1,231

9.6

414

3.2

Other property crimes

736

323

43.9

194

26.4

130

17.7

75

10.2

14

1.9

Administration of justice

63,965

20,961

32.8

19,161

30.0

15,449

24.2

6,669

10.4

1,725

2.7

Fail to appear

4,930

1,736

35.2

1,516

30.8

1,124

22.8

439

8.9

115

2.3

Breach of probation

26,959

8,586

31.8

8,423

31.2

6,601

24.5

2,706

10.0

643

2.4

Unlawfully at large

2,437

667

27.4

818

33.6

663

27.2

257

10.5

32

1.3

Fail to comply with order

27,239

9,239

33.9

7,753

28.5

6,458

23.7

2,965

10.9

824

3.0

Other administration of justice

2,400

733

30.5

651

27.1

603

25.1

302

12.6

111

4.6

Other Criminal Code

26,767

9,228

34.5

7,350

27.5

5,761

21.5

3,037

11.3

1,391

5.2

Weapons

8,649

3,497

40.4

2,127

24.6

1,599

18.5

941

10.9

485

5.6

Prostitution

1,951

278

14.2

570

29.2

558

28.6

365

18.7

180

9.2

Disturbing the peace

2,158

870

40.3

551

25.5

436

20.2

228

10.6

73

3.4

Residual Criminal Code

14,009

4,583

32.7

4,102

29.3

3,168

22.6

1,503

10.7

653

4.7

Criminal Code traffic

51,175

12,199

23.8

12,479

24.4

12,473

24.4

9,071

17.7

4,953

9.7

Impaired driving

40,999

9,364

22.8

9,679

23.6

9,957

24.3

7,662

18.7

4,337

10.6

Other Criminal Code traffic

10,176

2,835

27.9

2,800

27.5

2,516

24.7

1,409

13.8

616

6.1

Other federal statute total

42,375

16,059

37.9

10,673

25.2

8,436

19.9

4,972

11.7

2,235

5.3

Drug possession

13,782

6,403

46.5

3,618

26.3

2,337

17.0

1,203

8.7

221

1.6

Drug trafficking

10,768

3,750

34.8

3,055

28.4

2,395

22.2

1,197

11.1

371

3.4

Youth Criminal Justice Act/Young Offenders Act

1,086

1,072

98.7

3

0.3

6

0.6

3

0.3

2

0.2

Residual federal statutes

16,739

4,834

28.9

3,997

23.9

3,698

22.1

2,569

15.3

1,641

9.8

Population 1

25,504,186

3,118,681

12.2

4,463,557

17.5

5,062,519

19.8

5,044,882

19.8

7,814,847

30.6

1. Population estimates as of July 2006. Coverage for Adult Criminal Court Survey data as of 2006/2007 is estimated at 98% of adult court caseload.

Note: Due to rounding, percentages may not add to 100. Age is the age of the accused at the time of the offence. Excludes 10,279 (2.8%) cases where age of the accused was unknown or under 18 at the time of the offence. In Quebec, most drug offences are recorded under residual federal statutes, resulting in an undercount of drug possession and drug trafficking cases and an overcount of residual federal statute cases
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.