Table 6
Charges completed in adult criminal provincial court, by type of offence and decision, Canada, 2015/2016

Table 6
Charges completed in adult criminal provincial court, by type of offence and decision, 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 The information is grouped by Type of offence (appearing as row headers), Guilty, Stayed, Withdrawn, Acquitted, Other decisions and Total charges, calculated using number and median length of charge (days) units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence	Guilty^{Table 6 Note 1}		Stayed^{Table 6 Note 2}		Withdrawn^{Table 6 Note 3}		Acquitted		Other decisions^{Table 6 Note 4}		Total charges
Type of offence	number^{Table 6 Note 5}	median length of charge (days)^{Table 6 Note 6}	number^{Table 6 Note 5}	median length of charge (days)^{Table 6 Note 6}	number^{Table 6 Note 5}	median length of charge (days)^{Table 6 Note 6}	number^{Table 6 Note 5}	median length of charge (days)^{Table 6 Note 6}	number^{Table 6 Note 5}	median length of charge (days)^{Table 6 Note 6}	number^{Table 6 Note 5}	median length of charge (days)^{Table 6 Note 6}
Violent offences	72,607	142	37,423	164	84,473	157	15,844	283	3,549	95	213,896	162
Homicide	52	235	48	371	132	174	1	251	9	1	242	196
Attempted murder	34	290	92	168	329	193	17	305	34	234	506	201
Robbery	2,780	200	1,187	200	3,134	160	217	316	114	6	7,432	183
Sexual assault	1,644	301	1,750	268	4,023	213	513	412	158	196	8,088	255
Other sexual offences^{Table 6 Note 7}	3,544	304	1,976	271	5,373	237	447	485	158	101	11,498	270
Major assault^{Table 6 Note 8}	14,726	154	8,896	180	17,607	157	3,023	288	747	102	44,999	169
Common assault	31,789	125	13,443	141	30,024	148	5,559	262	1,092	77	81,907	144
Uttering threats	13,798	117	7,370	147	15,471	143	4,301	277	719	106	41,659	148
Criminal harassment	2,546	152	884	162	3,664	146	1,038	303	306	99	8,438	166
Other violent offences	1,694	183	1,777	178	4,716	156	728	285	212	99	9,127	174
Property offences	98,874	101	38,704	113	108,444	129	4,628	335	3,422	69	254,072	118
Theft^{Table 6 Note 9}	42,245	78	11,790	90	22,654	90	951	316	796	64	78,436	85
Break and enter	11,151	140	3,472	132	9,192	133	827	309	273	35	24,915	140
Fraud	15,034	160	6,858	156	26,573	176	705	543	1,183	83	50,353	169
Mischief	15,884	99	6,099	120	16,041	125	1,325	283	552	74	39,901	118
Possess stolen property	12,012	102	8,829	106	30,067	126	603	380	474	54	51,985	118
Other property offences	2,548	131	1,656	105	3,917	129	217	428	144	127	8,482	129
Administration of justice offences	160,643	60	60,767	65	121,159	69	5,412	191	3,020	39	351,001	65
Fail to appear	9,944	57	2,571	50	8,851	64	68	159	258	22	21,692	59
Breach of probation	56,469	58	19,065	59	40,687	62	1,772	189	836	30	118,829	61
Unlawfully at large	4,952	11	3,159	4	1,411	41	263	105	31	17	9,816	9
Fail to comply with order	76,912	60	31,700	72	62,436	72	2,746	191	1,376	60	175,170	68
Other administration of justice offences	12,366	93	4,272	113	7,774	106	563	309	519	24	25,494	101
*Other Criminal Code* offences**	17,711	138	13,527	184	34,921	152	1,858	375	920	104	68,937	158
Weapons	11,829	148	10,996	196	27,178	158	1,353	371	525	94	51,881	168
Prostitution	120	235	88	365	611	209	29	487	14	143	862	231
Disturbing the peace	1,926	50	768	92	1,590	78	46	182	46	85	4,376	66
Residual Criminal Code offences	3,836	157	1,675	151	5,542	139	430	408	335	114	11,818	152
Criminal Code (excluding traffic)	349,835	89	150,421	108	348,997	114	27,742	280	10,911	68	887,906	106
Criminal Code traffic offences	46,879	101	15,237	141	34,068	106	4,732	387	1,037	123	101,953	119
Impaired driving	35,712	85	12,945	137	26,832	99	4,173	393	766	142	80,428	109
Other Criminal Code traffic offences	11,167	139	2,292	155	7,236	134	559	343	271	97	21,525	141
*Total Criminal Code* offences**	396,714	91	165,658	111	383,065	114	32,474	292	11,948	72	989,859	107
Other federal statute offences	55,476	143	15,158	153	39,348	133	3,769	339	3,944	136	117,695	146
Drug possession	15,230	94	5,670	113	17,569	113	103	294	237	29	38,809	106
Other drug offences^{Table 6 Note 10}	5,748	253	3,851	212	14,459	177	161	434	242	29	24,461	202
Youth Criminal Justice Act	2,037	64	1,410	64	2,000	71	21	285	28	44	5,496	68
Residual federal statute offences	32,461	170	4,227	255	5,320	142	3,484	342	3,437	169	48,929	185
Total offences	452,190	95	180,816	114	422,413	115	36,243	296	15,892	83	1,107,554	112
Note 1 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. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Includes stays as well as court referrals to alternative or extrajudicial measures and restorative justice programs. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Includes withdrawals, dismissals and discharges at preliminary inquiry. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 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. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 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. Return to note 5 referrer Note 6 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. Return to note 6 referrer Note 7 Includes, for example, sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching, child pornography, luring a child via a computer and sexual exploitation. Return to note 7 referrer Note 8 Includes, for example, assault with a weapon (level 2) and aggravated assault (level 3). Return to note 8 referrer Note 9 Includes, for example, theft over $5,000, theft $5,000 or under, as well as motor vehicle theft. Return to note 9 referrer Note 10 Includes drug trafficking, production, importing and exporting. Return to note 10 referrer 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.

Date modified:: 2018-02-13

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Charges completed in adult criminal provincial court, by type of offence and decision, Canada, 2015/2016