Table 4
Cases completed in adult criminal court, by type of offence and decision, Canada, 2014/2015

Table 4
Cases completed in adult criminal court, by type of offence and decision, Canada, 2014/2015
Table summary
This table displays the results of Cases completed in adult criminal court. The information is grouped by Type of offence (appearing as row headers), Guilty, Stayed, Withdrawn, Acquitted, Other decisions and Total cases, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offenceTable 4 Note 1 GuiltyTable 4 Note 2 StayedTable 4 Note 3 WithdrawnTable 4 Note 4 Acquitted Other decisionsTable 4 Note 5 Total cases
number percent number percent number percent number percent number percent number percent
Violent offences 38,020 49 9,958 13 21,153 28 6,452 8 1,305 2 76,888 100
Homicide 111 47 32 14 74 31 7 3 12 5 236 100
Attempted murder 28 20 17 12 73 53 10 7 9 7 137 100
Robbery 1,742 58 320 11 758 25 176 6 32 1 3,028 100
Sexual assault 1,116 43 399 15 774 30 252 10 45 2 2,586 100
Other sexual offencesTable 4 Note 6 1,808 56 409 13 702 22 220 7 65 2 3,204 100
Major assaultTable 4 Note 7 9,161 52 2,331 13 4,273 24 1,525 9 241 1 17,531 100
Common assault 14,104 47 4,443 15 9,194 31 1,737 6 389 1 29,867 100
Uttering threats 7,626 51 1,505 10 3,565 24 1,861 13 306 2 14,863 100
Criminal harassment 1,323 47 175 6 857 31 341 12 112 4 2,808 100
Other violent offences 1,001 38 327 12 883 34 323 12 94 4 2,628 100
Property offences 45,071 59 11,693 15 17,348 23 1,601 2 643 1 76,356 100
TheftTable 4 Note 8 20,720 61 5,760 17 6,967 20 388 1 166 0 34,001 100
Break and enter 5,794 68 777 9 1,462 17 424 5 112 1 8,569 100
Fraud 6,531 62 1,213 12 2,317 22 218 2 191 2 10,470 100
Mischief 6,289 53 1,871 16 3,386 28 313 3 92 1 11,951 100
Possess stolen property 4,752 48 1,950 20 2,994 30 218 2 63 1 9,977 100
Other property offences 985 71 122 9 222 16 40 3 19 1 1,388 100
Administration of justice offences 54,072 72 6,336 8 12,477 17 1,362 2 564 1 74,811 100
Fail to appear 1,799 48 526 14 1,377 37 18 0 49 1 3,769 100
Breach of probation 23,772 80 1,972 7 3,189 11 501 2 192 1 29,626 100
Unlawfully at large 2,010 81 60 2 293 12 93 4 14 1 2,470 100
Fail to comply with order 21,336 68 2,987 9 6,424 20 582 2 215 1 31,544 100
Other administration of justice offences 5,155 70 791 11 1,194 16 168 2 94 1 7,402 100
Other Criminal Code offences 8,367 60 1,501 11 3,251 23 577 4 147 1 13,843 100
Weapons 5,429 62 868 10 2,001 23 340 4 75 1 8,713 100
Prostitution 66 19 116 33 132 37 39 11 2 1 355 100
Disturbing the peace 706 65 139 13 235 21 6 1 8 1 1,094 100
Residual Criminal Code offences 2,166 59 378 10 883 24 192 5 62 2 3,681 100
Criminal Code (excluding traffic) 145,530 60 29,488 12 54,229 22 9,992 4 2,659 1 241,898 100
Criminal Code traffic offences 33,260 79 1,253 3 5,767 14 1,632 4 253 1 42,165 100
Impaired driving 26,096 79 921 3 4,483 14 1,450 4 171 1 33,121 100
Other Criminal Code traffic offences 7,164 79 332 4 1,284 14 182 2 82 1 9,044 100
Total Criminal Code offences 178,790 63 30,741 11 59,996 21 11,624 4 2,912 1 284,063 100
Other federal statute offences 28,738 65 4,125 9 9,118 21 1,538 3 446 1 43,965 100
Drug possession 6,230 47 2,519 19 4,549 34 27 0 50 0 13,375 100
Other drug offencesTable 4 Note 9 4,401 50 1,228 14 3,032 34 115 1 49 1 8,825 100
Youth Criminal Justice Act 599 68 131 15 147 17 3 0 6 1 886 100
Residual federal statute offences 17,508 84 247 1 1,390 7 1,393 7 341 2 20,879 100
Total offences 207,528 63 34,866 11 69,114 21 13,162 4 3,358 1 328,028 100
Note 1.

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

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Note 2.

Guilty findings include guilty of the offence, of an included offence, of an attempt of the offence, or of an attempt of an included offence. Also includes guilty pleas, and cases where an absolute or conditional discharge has been imposed.

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Note 3.

Includes stays as well as court referrals to alternative or extrajudicial measures and restorative justice programs.

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Note 4.

Includes withdrawals, dismissals and discharges at preliminary inquiry.

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Note 5.

Includes final decisions of found not criminally responsible and waived out of province or territory. Also includes any order where a conviction was not recorded, the court's acceptance of a special plea, cases that raise Charter arguments and cases where the accused was found unfit to stand trial.

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Note 6.

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 7.

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

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Note 8.

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

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Note 9.

Includes drug trafficking, production, importing and exporting.

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Note: 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. Data exclude information from superior courts in Prince Edward Island, Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan as well as municipal courts in Quebec due to the unavailability of data.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Integrated Criminal Court Survey.
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