Table 5
Charges completed in adult criminal provincial court, by trial, type of offence, Canada, 2015/2016

Table 5
Charges completed in adult criminal provincial court, by trial, type of offence, Canada, 2015/2016
Table summary
This table displays the results of Charges completed in adult criminal provincial court. The information is grouped by Type of offence (appearing as row headers), No trial and Trial, calculated using number and median length of charge (days) units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence No trial TrialTable 5 Note 1
numberTable 5 Note 2 median length of charge (days)Table 5 Note 3 numberTable 5 Note 2 median length of charge (days)Table 5 Note 3
Violent offences 128,555 99 85,341 263
Homicide 201 151 41 363
Attempted murder 356 146 150 295
Robbery 5,153 134 2,279 297
Sexual assault 4,592 167 3,496 368
Other sexual offencesTable 5 Note 4 6,949 196 4,549 409
Major assaultTable 5 Note 5 26,899 104 18,100 268
Common assault 50,312 87 31,595 240
Uttering threats 24,100 81 17,559 246
Criminal harassment 4,548 92 3,890 277
Other violent offences 5,445 108 3,682 266
Property offences 191,048 81 63,024 263
TheftTable 5 Note 6 63,320 60 15,116 244
Break and enter 17,371 98 7,544 252
Fraud 35,725 116 14,628 325
Mischief 28,606 78 11,295 236
Possess stolen property 39,743 85 12,242 259
Other property offences 6,283 85 2,199 267
Administration of justice offences 282,889 44 68,112 204
Fail to appear 19,646 49 2,046 210
Breach of probation 92,278 38 26,551 189
Unlawfully at large 8,414 6 1,402 163
Fail to comply with order 144,234 48 30,936 205
Other administration of justice offences 18,317 59 7,177 261
Other Criminal Code offences 47,382 107 21,555 294
Weapons 35,246 118 16,635 286
Prostitution 509 169 353 461
Disturbing the peace 3,526 45 850 225
Residual Criminal Code offences 8,101 101 3,717 338
Criminal Code (excluding traffic) 649,874 68 238,032 247
Criminal Code traffic offences 63,276 46 38,677 310
Impaired driving 48,904 36 31,524 318
Other Criminal Code traffic offences 14,372 87 7,153 281
Total Criminal Code offences 713,150 65 276,709 255
Other federal statute offences 75,668 80 42,027 315
Drug possession 31,059 78 7,750 273
Other drug offencesTable 5 Note 7 17,162 151 7,299 329
Youth Criminal Justice Act 4,930 56 566 201
Residual federal statute offences 22,517 29 26,412 337
Total offences 788,818 66 318,736 262
Note 1

The number of trials is based on charges that had at least one trial appearance that was scheduled and/or held.

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Note 2

A charge refers to a formal accusation against an accused person or company involving a federal statute offence that has been processed by the courts and received a final decision.

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Note 3

Charge lengths are calculated based on the number of days it takes to complete a charge, from first appearance to final decision. The median is the point at which half of all charges had longer charge lengths and half had shorter charge lengths.

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Note 4

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 5

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

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Note 6

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

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Note 7

Includes drug trafficking, production, importing and exporting.

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Note: Data excludes information from 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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