Table 10a
Police-reported youth crime, by selected violent offences, by province and territory, 2016

Table 10a
Police-reported youth crime, by selected violent offences, by province and territory, 2016
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 2015 to 2016 units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Province and territory HomicideTable 10a Note 1 Sexual assault (levels 1, 2, and 3) Major assault (levels 2 and 3)Table 10a Note 2 Common assault
number rate rate percent change in rate 2015 to 2016Table 10a Note 3 rate percent change in rate 2015 to 2016 rate percent change in rate 2015 to 2016
Newfoundland and Labrador 0 0 41 -35 260 23 839 -11
Prince Edward Island 0 0 61 Note ...: not applicable 51 -61 296 -6
Nova Scotia 2 3 98 -13 215 4 781 3
New Brunswick 0 0 89 25 170 -4 775 5
Quebec 2 0sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 97 3 156 -10 525 3
Ontario 7 1 67 -7 147 18 442 2
Manitoba 1 1 117 -27 452 -1 1,129 -3
Saskatchewan 5 6 93 -17 495 -17 917 -13
Alberta 5 2 61 -27 193 -7 504 -13
British Columbia 0 0 45 0sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 115 -3 354 -2
Yukon 0 0 291 19 623 2 2,242 -5
Northwest Territories 0 0 264 -38 627 37 2,474 -17
Nunavut 0 0 317 -15 844 38 2,163 -11
Canada 22 1 75 -8 181 0sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 529 -2
Province
and territory		 Robbery Sexual violations against childrenTable 10a Note 4 Table 10a Note 5 Table 10a Note 6 Total violent crimeTable 10a Note 7 Total crime (youth crime rate)Table 10a Note 7
rate percent change in rate 2015 to 2016Table 10a Note 3 rate percent change in rate 2015 to 2016Table 10a Note 3 rate percent change in rate 2015 to 2016 rate percent change in rate 2015 to 2016
Newfoundland and Labrador 28 0sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 34 -8 1,613 -8 4,667 -1
Prince Edward Island 20 Note ...: not applicable 20 Note ...: not applicable 644 -11 2,248 -14
Nova Scotia 61 -37 40 66 1,687 4 4,959 -2
New Brunswick 28 -45 47 39 1,459 -1 4,071 -5
Quebec 104 30 55 1 1,391 3 3,073 -2
Ontario 142 9 26 139 1,103 6 3,112 -2
Manitoba 202 31 63 72 2,537 1 7,402 -5
Saskatchewan 182 -15 41 29 2,401 -8 10,815 -10
Alberta 72 -21 36 80 1,149 -11 4,099 -13
British Columbia 58 -4 22 -8 814 -1 2,761 -5
Yukon 125 Note ...: not applicable 208 Note ...: not applicable 5,023 0sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 21,088 -22
Northwest Territories 165 Note ...: not applicable 33 Note ...: not applicable 4,288 -24 22,625 -6
Nunavut 26 Note ...: not applicable 211 14 4,432 -13 21,525 -2
Canada 112 6 36 38 1,279 0sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 3,795 -5
... not applicable
0s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded
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 assault 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

Excludes sexual assaults against children and youth, which are reported as level 1, 2 or 3 sexual assault.

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Note 5

Includes sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching, sexual exploitation, luring a child via a computer/agreement or arrangement, and making sexually explicit material available to a child for the purpose of facilitating sexual offences against children/youth, and, as of December 2014, the offences of parent or guardian procuring sexual activity (Criminal Code, s. 170), and householder permitting prohibited sexual activity (Criminal Code, s. 171) are also included. Incidents of child pornography are not included in the category of sexual violations against children.

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Note 6

Coming into effect on July 17th, 2015, Bill C-26 increased the maximum penalties for certain sexual offences against children, including failure to comply with orders and probation conditions relating to sexual offences against children. In the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, the most serious violation is partially determined by the maximum penalty. As such, changes in maximum penalty may affect the most serious violation in an incident reported by police. Police services are able to utilize these amendments as their Records Management Systems are updated to allow them.

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Note 7

Crime rates are based upon Criminal Code incidents, excluding traffic offences. See Table 6 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). Data is based on 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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