Table 8b
Police-reported youth Crime Severity Indexes, Canada, 2002 to 2012

Table 8b
Police-reported youth Crime Severity Indexes, Canada, 2002 to 2012
Table summary
This table displays the results of police-reported youth crime severity indexes. The information is grouped by year (appearing as row headers), youth crime
severity index, youth violent crime severity index and youth non-violent crime severity index, calculated using index and percent change from previous year units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Year Youth Crime
Severity Index		 Youth violent Crime Severity Index Youth non-violent Crime Severity Index
index percent change from previous year index percent change from previous year index percent change from previous year
2002 101.1 -5 87.3 -5 111.7 -5
2003 106.0 5 92.6 6 116.2 4
2004 100.8 -5 87.8 -5 110.7 -5
2005 97.3 -4 94.1 7 99.8 -10
2006 100.0 3 100.0 6 100.0 0
2007 101.6 2 102.2 2 101.1 1
2008 96.2 -5 96.3 -6 96.2 -5
2009 96.7 0 97.8 2 95.8 0
2010 91.6 -5 94.9 -3 89.1 -7
2011Note r: revised 83.4 -9 89.2 -6 78.9 -11
2012 78.1 -6 83.0 -7 74.2 -6
Percent change 2002 to 2012 -22.8 Note ...: not applicable -4.9 Note ...: not applicable -33.5 Note ...: not applicable
... not applicable
r revised
Note: Refers to the number of youth aged 12 to 17 who were either charged (or recommended for charging) by police or diverted from the formal criminal justice system through the use of warnings, cautions, referrals to community programs, etc. Data on the youth Crime Severity Indexes are available from 1998. The base index was set at 100 for 2006 for Canada.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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