Table 3
Police-reported Criminal Code incidents involving at least one offence against the administration of justice, by most serious violation, Canada, 2014

Table 3
Police-reported Criminal Code incidents involving at least one offence against the administration of justice, by most serious violation, Canada, 2014
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported Criminal Code incidents involving at least one offence against the administration of justice. The information is grouped by Most serious violation (appearing as row headers), Incidents without an offence against the administration of justice, Incident includes a Youth Criminal Justice Act violation, Incident includes an offence against the administration of justice, Incident includes an offence against the administration of justice and a Youth Criminal Justice Act violation, Total incidents and Percent of incidents that include offence against the administration of justice, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Most serious violationNote 1 Incidents without an offence against the administration of justice Incident includes a Youth Criminal Justice Act violation Incident includes an offence against the administration of justice Incident includes an offence against the administration of justice and a Youth Criminal Justice Act violation Total incidents Percent of incidents that include offence against the administration of justice
number percent
Total crimes against the person 300,558 1,339 23,093 358 325,348 7.6
Violations causing death 554 0 4 0 558 0.7
Attempting the commission of a capital crime 518 4 30 1 553 6.3
Sexual violations 23,036 40 630 8 23,714 2.9
Assaults 172,431 933 15,451 249 189,064 8.8
Violations resulting in the deprivation of freedom 2,932 11 404 1 3,348 12.4
Other violations involving violence or the threat of violence 101,087 351 6,574 99 108,111 6.5
Offences against the administration of justice 0 0 168,679 1,816 170,495 100.0
Property crime 1,064,004 1,519 20,126 437 1,086,086 2.0
Other Criminal Code 150,627 356 3,404 98 154,485 2.5
Total incidents 1,515,189 3,214 215,302 2,709 1,736,414 12.7
Note 1.

Counts presented on this table represent the number of Criminal Code (excluding traffic) incidents that exclude or include offences against the administration of justice as a first, second, third or fourth violation on the incident record. Data are drawn from the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Survey microdata file, which excludes incidents where the accused and/or victim record for the incident (if applicable) was not available. For this reason, totals may not match other tables in this report, where data are drawn from the UCR aggregate file.

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Note: Offences against the administration of justice include: Failure to comply with conditions, escape custody, prisoner unlawfully at large, failure to attend court, breach of probation, and other offences against the administration of law and justice (Part IV C.C.). Specific Youth Criminal Justice Act violations are not included as offences against the administration of justice.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Microdata Survey.
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