Table 1
Police-reported cybercrimes, selected police services, 2012

Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported cybercrimes. The information is grouped by Cyber-related violation (appearing as row headers), Number, Rate per 100,000 population and Percentage of total (appearing as column headers).
Cyber-related violationNote 1 Number Rate per 100,000 population Percentage of total
Total cybercrimes against the person 3,284 11.8 36.2
Sexual violations 1,441 5.2 15.9
Invitation to sexual touching 67 0.2 0.7
Sexual exploitation 10 0.0 0.1
Luring a child/ Agreement or arrangement 543 2.0 6.0
Voyeurism 11 0.0 0.1
Other sexual violationsNote 2 5 0.0 0.1
Child pornographyNote 3 805 2.9 8.9
Intimidation violations 1,839 6.6 20.2
Extortion 136 0.5 1.5
Intimidation of an individualNote 4 7 0.0 0.1
Criminal harassment 560 2.0 6.2
Threatening or harassing phone calls 377 1.4 4.2
Uttering threats 759 2.7 8.4
Other violent violationsNote 5 4 0.0 0.0
Total cybercrimes against property 5,544 20.0 61.0
Fraud 4,878 17.6 53.7
Identity theft 73 0.3 0.8
Identity fraud 421 1.5 4.6
Mischief 170 0.6 1.9
Trafficking stolen goods 2 0.0 0.0
Total other Criminal Code violationsNote 6 256 0.9 2.8
Total - all Criminal Code violations 9,084 32.7 100.0
Note 1.

Counts are based upon the violation in the incident where a computer or the Internet was the target of the crime or the instrument used to commit the crime.

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Note 2.

Other sexual violations include corrupting children, making sexually explicit material available to children, and bestiality - commit or compel person.

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Note 3.

Due to the complexity of these cybercrimes, the data likely reflect the number of active or closed investigations for the year rather than the total number of incidents reported to police. The violation "child pornography" includes offences under section 163.1 of the Criminal Code which makes it illegal to access, possess, make, print, or distribute child pornography. When the actual victim is not identified, this offence is reported to the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey with the most serious violation being “Child pornography.” For the purposes of this analysis, these violations are included with 'sexual violations', which are grouped under cybercrimes against the person. In cases where an actual victim is identified, police will report the most serious violation as sexual assault, sexual exploitation or other sexual violations against children, and child pornography may be reported as a secondary violation.

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Note 4.

Intimidation of an individual includes intimidation of a justice system participant or journalist and intimidation of a non-justice system participant.

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Note 5.

Other violent violations include trafficking in persons and other violent violations.

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Note 6.

Other Criminal Code violations include offences such as corrupting morals, indecent acts, offences against the person and reputation, fail to comply with order, and breach of probation.

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Note: This table reflects data reported by police services covering 80% of the population of Canada. Data from Saint John, Québec City, Toronto, Calgary, and the Ontario Provincial Police were not available and thus were not included in the present analysis.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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