Table 4
Cases completed in youth court, by type of offence, age group, and sex of the accused, Canada, 2013/2014

Table 4
Cases completed in youth court, by type of offence, age group, and sex of the accused, Canada, 2013/2014
Table summary
This table displays the results of Cases completed in youth court. The information is grouped by Type of offence (appearing as row headers), Male, Female, Total youth, 12 to 15 years of age, 16 to 17 years of age, Total males and Total females, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offenceNote 1 Male Female Total youth
12 to 15 years of age 16 to 17 years of age Total males 12 to 15 years of age 16 to 17 years of age Total females
numberNote 2 percent number percent number numberNote 2 percent number percent number
Violent offences 3,540 44 4,507 56 8,047 1,160 47 1,303 53 2,463 10,510
Homicide 4 24 13 76 17 1 33 2 67 3 20
Attempted murder 3 21 11 79 14 1 100 0 0 1 15
Robbery 541 36 971 64 1,512 98 47 111 53 209 1,721
Sexual assault 404 64 226 36 630 14 93 1 7 15 645
Other sexual offencesNote 3 375 63 223 37 598 14 70 6 30 20 618
Major assaultNote 4 581 38 951 62 1,532 208 40 308 60 516 2,048
Common assault 873 42 1,205 58 2,078 532 46 636 54 1,168 3,246
Uttering threats 599 47 688 53 1,287 243 53 216 47 459 1,746
Criminal harassment 68 48 73 52 141 34 81 8 19 42 183
Other crimes against persons 92 39 146 61 238 15 50 15 50 30 268
Property offences 3,895 42 5,405 58 9,300 1,214 45 1,514 55 2,728 12,028
TheftNote 5 1,206 41 1,718 59 2,924 602 45 745 55 1,347 4,271
Break and enter 1,070 46 1,250 54 2,320 160 51 156 49 316 2,636
Fraud 59 21 220 79 279 32 20 126 80 158 437
Mischief 802 44 1,040 56 1,842 180 46 212 54 392 2,234
Possess stolen property 633 38 1,038 62 1,671 213 45 258 55 471 2,142
Other property offences 125 47 139 53 264 27 61 17 39 44 308
Administration of justice offences 699 27 1,860 73 2,559 402 39 631 61 1,033 3,592
Fail to appear 36 29 90 71 126 30 35 56 65 86 212
Breach of probation 7 17 34 83 41 3 27 8 73 11 52
Unlawfully at large 42 21 161 79 203 16 42 22 58 38 241
Fail to comply with order 490 29 1,202 71 1,692 273 40 411 60 684 2,376
Other administration of justice offences 124 25 373 75 497 80 37 134 63 214 711
Other Criminal Code offences 604 36 1,064 64 1,668 94 44 118 56 212 1,880
Weapons 428 38 692 62 1,120 46 43 61 57 107 1,227
Prostitution 0 0 6 100 6 2 50 2 50 4 10
Disturbing the peace 14 23 46 77 60 12 63 7 37 19 79
Residual Criminal Code offences 162 34 320 66 482 34 41 48 59 82 564
Criminal Code (excluding traffic) 8,738 41 12,836 59 21,574 2,870 45 3,566 55 6,436 28,010
Criminal Code traffic offences 62 13 408 87 470 19 16 97 84 116 586
Impaired driving 6 3 207 97 213 9 12 64 88 73 286
Other Criminal Code traffic offences 56 22 201 78 257 10 23 33 77 43 300
Total Criminal Code offences 8,800 40 13,244 60 22,044 2,889 44 3,663 56 6,552 28,596
Other federal statute offences 1,418 26 3,961 74 5,379 491 36 874 64 1,365 6,744
Drug possession 291 23 984 77 1,275 51 23 171 77 222 1,497
Other drug offencesNote 6 91 19 396 81 487 17 19 73 81 90 577
Youth Criminal Justice Act 575 25 1,680 75 2,255 299 37 511 63 810 3,065
Residual federal statute offences 461 34 901 66 1,362 124 51 119 49 243 1,605
Total offences 10,218 37 17,205 63 27,423 3,380 43 4,537 57 7,917 35,340
Note 1.

Cases that involve more than one charge are represented by the most serious offence.

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Note 2.

A case is one or more charges against an accused person or company that were processed by the courts at the same time and received a final decision.

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Note 3.

Includes, for example, sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching, child pornography, luring a child via a computer and sexual exploitation.

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Note 4.

Includes, for example, assault with a weapon (level 2) and aggravated assault (level 3).

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Note 5.

Includes, for example, theft over $5,000, theft $5,000 or under, as well as motor vehicle theft.

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Note 6.

Includes drug trafficking, production, importing and exporting.

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Note: Includes information on accused persons aged 12 to 17 years of age at the time of the offence. Excludes cases in which the age and/or the sex of the accused was unknown. A case is one or more charges against an accused person or company that were processed by the courts at the same time and received a final decision. Information on the sex of the accused is not available from Manitoba as of 2005/2006.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Integrated Criminal Court Survey.
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