Table 13
Number of appearances, median number of appearances, and average number of days between appearances for charges completed in adult criminal superior court, Canada, 2014/2015 and 2015/2016

Table 13
Number of appearances, median number of appearances, and average number of days between appearances for charges completed in adult criminal superior court, Canada, 2014/2015 and 2015/2016
Table summary
This table displays the results of Number of appearances. The information is grouped by Type of offence (appearing as row headers), 2014/2015, 2015/2016, Percent change in number of appearances , Difference in median number of appearances and Difference in average days between appearances, calculated using number of appearances, median number of appearances and average number of days between appearances units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offenceTable 13 Note 1 2014/2015 2015/2016 Percent change in number of appearances Difference in median number of appearances Difference in average days between appearances
number of appearancesTable 13 Note 2 median number of appearancesTable 13 Note 3 average number of days between appearancesTable 13 Note 4 number of appearancesTable 13 Note 2 median number of appearancesTable 13 Note 3 average number of days between appearancesTable 13 Note 4
Violent offences 58,629 9 43 53,489 9 48 -9 0 5
Homicide 5,802 15 12 1,629 13 28 -72 -2 16
Attempted murder 1,474 10 20 555 13 36 -62 3 16
Robbery 5,725 10 36 3,677 9 54 -36 -1 18
Sexual assault 7,345 10 51 9,568 12 47 30 2 -4
Other sexual offencesTable 13 Note 5 7,697 10 54 8,537 11 52 11 1 -2
Major assaultTable 13 Note 6 11,609 9 44 11,429 9 46 -2 0 2
Common assault 6,875 8 55 5,418 8 53 -21 0 -2
Uttering threats 6,052 7 52 5,942 8 49 -2 1 -3
Criminal harassment 1,650 8 53 1,327 8 58 -20 0 5
Other violent offences 4,400 10 38 5,407 10 38 23 0 0
Property offences 31,704 9 43 19,366 9 50 -39 0 7
TheftTable 13 Note 7 3,517 9 49 2,380 10 59 -32 1 10
Break and enter 4,598 7 50 4,777 8 48 4 1 -2
Fraud 14,756 13 39 6,132 12 53 -58 -1 14
Mischief 1,505 7 55 1,204 7 54 -20 0 -1
Possess stolen property 4,203 9 46 3,415 8 44 -19 -1 -2
Other property offences 3,125 13 38 1,458 10 47 -53 -3 9
Administration of justice offences 9,143 9 37 6,865 9 38 -25 0 1
Fail to appear 49 5 25 15 8 35 -69 3 10
Breach of probation 1,238 9 32 1,089 7 40 -12 -2 8
Unlawfully at large 66 5 52 60 7 33 -9 2 -19
Fail to comply with order 4,987 9 36 3,507 9 35 -30 0 -1
Other administration of justice offences 2,803 9 42 2,194 10 43 -22 1 1
Other Criminal Code offences 23,447 11 38 25,551 10 43 9 -1 5
Weapons 16,582 11 37 19,043 10 42 15 -1 5
Prostitution 1,472 18 37 438 16 47 -70 -2 10
Disturbing the peace 35 12 42 0 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable -100 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable
Residual Criminal Code offences 5,358 11 40 6,070 12 47 13 1 7
Criminal Code (excluding traffic) 122,923 9 42 105,271 9 46 -14 0 4
Criminal Code traffic offences 5,325 10 57 4,762 12 59 -11 2 2
Impaired driving 2,677 11 65 2,690 12 61 0 1 -4
Other Criminal Code traffic offences 2,648 9 50 2,072 12 56 -22 3 6
Total Criminal Code offences 128,248 9 42 110,033 10 47 -14 1 5
Other federal statute offences 29,713 9 47 37,699 7 51 27 -2 4
Drug possession 1,363 7 37 1,495 7 43 10 0 6
Other drug offencesTable 13 Note 8 9,459 9 37 9,625 9 39 2 0 2
Youth Criminal Justice Act 39 13 46 16 8 14 -59 -5 -32
Residual federal statute offences 18,852 9 53 26,563 6 56 41 -3 3
Total offences 157,961 9 43 147,732 9 48 -6 0 5
... not applicable
Note 1

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 2

An appearance refers to the act of attending court, either in person or as represented by legal counsel, in response to a criminal charge(s). One appearance is counted for each unique date associated with a charge (e.g., appearances on three different days equals three charge appearances).

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Note 3

The median is the point at which half of all charges had more court appearances and half had fewer court appearances.

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Note 4

The average number of days between appearances is calculated by subtracting one appearance date from the date of the previous appearance. The average is based on all of these calculated differences. Excludes charges with only one court appearance.

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Note 5

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 6

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

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Note 7

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

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Note 8

Includes drug trafficking, production, importing and exporting.

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Note: Data excludes information from superior courts in Prince Edward Island, Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan due to the unavailability of data. Also excludes data from Nunavut, where there is one single level of court in which judges hear all matters.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Integrated Criminal Court Survey.

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