Table 1
Charges and cases in adult criminal court, Canada, 2008/2009

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Offence category Total charges Total cases
number percent number percent
Total offences 1,161,018 100 392,907 100
Criminal Code total 1,035,940 89.2 344,017 87.6
Crimes against the person 238,567 20.5 94,004 23.9
Homicide
 412 0.0 268 0.1
Attempted murder
 591 0.1 163 0.0
Robbery
 10,644 0.9 4,350 1.1
Sexual assault
 8,654 0.7 4,054 1.0
Other sexual offences
 8,418 0.7 2,004 0.5
Major assault
 50,012 4.3 21,213 5.4
Common assault
 91,353 7.9 37,237 9.5
Uttering threats
 49,894 4.3 18,368 4.7
Criminal harassment
 8,452 0.7 3,163 0.8
Other crimes against the person
 10,137 0.9 3,184 0.8
Crimes against property 276,395 23.8 91,923 23.4
Theft
 80,362 6.9 38,467 9.8
Break and enter
 27,513 2.4 11,465 2.9
Fraud
 66,758 5.7 14,416 3.7
Mischief
 40,240 3.5 13,849 3.5
Possess stolen property
 51,997 4.5 11,768 3.0
Other property crimes
 9,525 0.8 1,958 0.5
Administration of justice offences 319,473 27.5 82,573 21.0
Fail to appear
 24,158 2.1 5,009 1.3
Breach of probation
 99,851 8.6 30,321 7.7
Unlawfully at large
 7,539 0.6 2,524 0.6
Fail to comply with order
 161,233 13.9 35,879 9.1
Other administration of justice offences
 26,692 2.3 8,840 2.2
Other Criminal Code offences 69,859 6.0 18,676 4.8
Weapons offences
 44,809 3.9 9,748 2.5
Prostitution
 3,179 0.3 1,624 0.4
Disturb the peace
 6,169 0.5 1,810 0.5
Other offences
 15,702 1.4 5,494 1.4
Criminal Code traffic offences 131,646 11.3 56,841 14.5
Impaired driving
 106,835 9.2 45,068 11.5
Other Criminal Code traffic offences
 24,811 2.1 11,773 3.0
Other federal statute offences 125,078 10.8 48,890 12.4
Drug possession
 39,006 3.4 15,574 4.0
Drug trafficking
 30,184 2.6 12,587 3.2
Youth Criminal Justice Act and Young Offenders Act
 5,612 0.5 1,222 0.3
Other federal statutes
 50,276 4.3 19,507 5.0
Note: Due to rounding, percentages may not add to 100. 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. Coverage for Adult Criminal Court Survey data as at 2008/2009 is estimated at 95% of adult criminal court caseload.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Adult Criminal Court Survey.

 

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