Table 8
Charges completed in adult criminal provincial court, under and over presumptive ceiling, by type of offence, Canada, 2014/2015 to 2015/2016

Table 8
Charges completed in adult criminal provincial court, under and over presumptive ceiling, by type of offence, Canada, 2014/2015 to 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), 2014/2015, 2015/2016, Percent change in number of under presumptive ceiling charges, Percent change in number of over presumptive ceiling charges, Under presumptive ceiling and Over presumptive ceiling, calculated using number units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence 2014/2015 2015/2016 Percent change in number of under presumptive ceiling charges Percent change in number of over presumptive ceiling charges
Under presumptive ceiling Over presumptive ceilingTable 8 Note 1 Under presumptive ceiling Over presumptive ceilingTable 8 Note 1
numberTable 8 Note 2 Table 8 Note 3
Violent offences 194,744 14,540 199,495 14,401 2 -1
Homicide 298 24 231 11 -22 -54
Attempted murder 403 28 465 41 15 46
Robbery 6,955 560 6,853 579 -1 3
Sexual assault 6,523 1,004 7,008 1,080 7 8
Other sexual offencesTable 8 Note 4 9,261 1,575 9,822 1,676 6 6
Major assaultTable 8 Note 5 39,764 3,404 41,661 3,338 5 -2
Common assault 77,412 4,077 78,000 3,907 1 -4
Uttering threats 38,812 2,621 39,166 2,493 1 -5
Criminal harassment 7,424 625 7,808 630 5 1
Other violent offences 7,892 622 8,481 646 7 4
Property offences 226,917 16,191 239,047 15,025 5 -7
TheftTable 8 Note 6 73,052 3,434 75,218 3,218 3 -6
Break and enter 22,633 1,637 23,183 1,732 2 6
Fraud 44,030 6,108 45,333 5,020 3 -18
Mischief 36,142 1,856 38,219 1,682 6 -9
Possess stolen property 43,951 2,563 49,176 2,809 12 10
Other property offences 7,109 593 7,918 564 11 -5
Administration of justice offences 317,945 10,836 340,351 10,650 7 -2
Fail to appear 18,096 481 21,226 466 17 -3
Breach of probation 109,903 3,546 115,470 3,359 5 -5
Unlawfully at large 8,271 180 9,531 285 15 58
Fail to comply with order 159,329 5,224 170,019 5,151 7 -1
Other administration of justice offences 22,346 1,405 24,105 1,389 8 -1
Other Criminal Code offences 55,832 4,762 64,059 4,878 15 2
Weapons 40,375 3,184 48,432 3,449 20 8
Prostitution 1,011 129 751 111 -26 -14
Disturbing the peace 4,403 103 4,263 113 -3 10
Residual Criminal Code offences 10,043 1,346 10,613 1,205 6 -10
Criminal Code (excluding traffic) 795,438 46,329 842,952 44,954 6 -3
Criminal Code traffic offences 90,230 11,950 91,729 10,224 2 -14
Impaired driving 71,568 10,319 71,742 8,686 0 -16
Other Criminal Code traffic offences 18,662 1,631 19,987 1,538 7 -6
Total Criminal Code offences 885,668 58,279 934,681 55,178 6 -5
Other federal statute offences 107,954 12,434 105,171 12,524 -3 1
Drug possession 36,406 1,233 37,536 1,273 3 3
Other drug offencesTable 8 Note 7 22,640 2,048 22,280 2,181 -2 6
Youth Criminal Justice Act 5,404 115 5,382 114 0 -1
Residual federal statute offences 43,504 9,038 39,973 8,956 -8 -1
Total offences 993,622 70,713 1,039,852 67,702 5 -4
Note 1

In provincial court, charges completed in more than 18 months (without a preliminary inquiry) or more than 30 months (with a preliminary inquiry) are over the presumptive ceiling.

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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.

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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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