Table 9a
Police-reported youth crime, by selected violent offences, by province and territory, 2015

Table 9a
Police-reported youth crime, by selected violent offences, by province and territory, 2015
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported youth crime. The information is grouped by Province and territory (appearing as row headers), Homicide, Sexual assault
(levels 1, 2, and 3), Major assault
(levels 2 and 3) and Common assault, calculated using number, rate and percent change in rate 2014 to 2015 units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Province and territory HomicideNote 1 Sexual assault
(levels 1, 2, and 3)		 Major assault
(levels 2 and 3)Note 2		 Common assault
number rate rate percent change in rate 2014 to 2015Note 3 rate percent change in rate 2014 to 2015 rate percent change in rate 2014 to 2015Note 3
Newfoundland and Labrador 0 0.00 72 37 206 -23 936 8
Prince Edward Island 0 0.00 41 Note ...: not applicable 153 70 317 -38
Nova Scotia 0 0.00 107 9 202 -10 746 -18
New Brunswick 0 0.00 76 18 169 -8 730 -10
Quebec 1 0.21 96 1 170 7 512 0
Ontario 7 0.76 73 1 124 -3 432 -4
Manitoba 3 3.07 166 29 454 8 1,162 13
Saskatchewan 10 12.19 116 -7 588 13 1,044 -1
Alberta 8 2.85 82 -1 207 8 571 -3
British Columbia 6 2.03 46 15 117 2 357 -3
Yukon 0 0.00 244 Note ...: not applicable 610 -28 2,357 -11
Northwest Territories 0 0.00 498 44 464 -49 2,953 -8
Nunavut 0 0.00 395 5 605 -27 2,448 -24
Canada 35 1.51 83 4 179 2 537 -2
Province and territory Robbery Firearms - use of, discharge, pointing Total violent crimeNote 4 Total crime
(youth crime rate)Note 4
rate percent change in rate 2014 to 2015Note 3 rate percent change in rate 2014 to 2015Note 3 rate percent change in rate 2014 to 2015 rate percent change in rate 2014 to 2015
Newfoundland and Labrador 25 Note ...: not applicable 6 Note ...: not applicable 1,732 -3 4,656 -1
Prince Edward Island 0 Note ...: not applicable 20 Note ...: not applicable 725 -30 2,676 -22
Nova Scotia 97 12 9 -15 1,577 -19 4,965 -14
New Brunswick 49 6 6 Note ...: not applicable 1,456 -6 4,223 -9
Quebec 77 -3 4 -8 1,353 -2 3,113 2
Ontario 130 1 6 31 1,031 -2 3,175 -1
Manitoba 152 -21 30 46 2,511 8 7,733 4
Saskatchewan 202 12 43 67 2,583 7 11,923 0
Alberta 88 16 17 17 1,276 -2 4,659 -5
British Columbia 61 -15 4 21 813 0 2,873 -6
Yukon 41 Note ...: not applicable 81 Note ...: not applicable 4,917 -4 26,940 26
Northwest Territories 166 Note ...: not applicable 66 Note ...: not applicable 5,607 -5 24,287 -13
Nunavut 184 Note ...: not applicable 26 Note ...: not applicable 5,028 -13 21,848 -4
Canada 104 -1 9 22 1,265 -1 3,973 -2
... not applicable
Note 1.

Due to the variability in small numbers, percent changes in the rates of youth accused of homicide are not calculated.

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Note 2.

Excludes assaults against a peace officer.

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Note 3.

Due to the variability in small numbers, percent changes have not been calculated when the number of offences is below 5 in any given year.

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Note 4.

Crime rates are based upon Criminal Code incidents, excluding traffic offences. See Table 9a for a list of offences included in the total violent crime, total property crime and total other crime categories.

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Note: Additional data are available on CANSIM (Table 252-0051). Refers to the number of youth aged 12 to 17 years 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. Counts are based upon the most serious violation in the incident. One incident may involve multiple violations. While the definition of youth and the legislation governing youth justice have changed over the years, data for police-reported rates of youth accused of total, violent, property and other crime categories are available from 1977. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 youth population. Percent changes are based on unrounded rates. Populations are based on July 1st estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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