Table 3
Prevalence of co-offending by age group, Canada, incident and accused counts, Criminal Code offences (excluding traffic), 2014

Table 3
Prevalence of co-offending by age group, Canada, incident and accused counts, Criminal Code offences (excluding traffic), 2014
Table summary
This table displays the results of Prevalence of co-offending by age group. The information is grouped by Type of offence (appearing as row headers), Lone offence (1 accused), Pair offence (2 accused), Group offence (3 or more accused and Total, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence Lone offence (1 accused) Pair offence (2 accused) Group offence (3 or more accused) Total
number percent number percent number percent number percent
Number of incidents by age of accused  
Incidents with at least one youth accused aged 12 to 17 58,805 74 13,902 17 7,004 9 79,711 100
Youth accused, no adult involved 58,805 82 9,351 13 3,853 5 72,009 100
Youth where adult accused involved Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable 4,551 59 3,151 41 7,702 100
Incidents with only child accused under age 12 2,893 80 492 14 216 6 3,601 100
Incidents with adults, but no youth accused 579,218 93 38,876 6 7,381 1 625,475 100
Incidents where age unknownNote 1 696 78 142 16 60 7 898 100
Total incidentsNote 2 641,612 90 53,412 8 14,661 2 709,685 100
Number of accused  
Youth accused aged 12 to 17 58,805 58 23,036 23 18,872 19 100,713 100
Young adult accused aged 18 to 24 139,471 76 28,834 16 14,983 8 183,288 100
Older adult accused and 25 and older 439,747 86 53,558 11 16,102 3 509,407 100
Child accused under age 12 2,893 54 1,242 23 1,255 23 5,390 100
Unknown age 696 74 154 16 86 9 936 100
Total accused 641,612 80 106,824 13 51,298 6 799,734 100
... not applicable
Note 1.

Age is unknown or over 89 for at least one accused in the incident.

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Note 2.

Incidents involving youth include incidents where at least one accused under aged 12 to 17. Incidents with youth, but no adult accused may include a child accused. Similarly, incidents with no youth accused include a small number of incidents where there are adult and child accused but no youth. Child accused are under age 12 and cannot be charged with a Criminal Code offence.

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Note: The first section of this table provides a count of criminal incidents according to the age composition of those accused in the incident. The second section of the table provides a count of accused individuals (by age) by their co-offending status.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Crime Reporting Survey.
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