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 offence^{Table 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
Type of offence^{Table 13 Note 1}	number of appearances^{Table 13 Note 2}	median number of appearances^{Table 13 Note 3}	average number of days between appearances^{Table 13 Note 4}	number of appearances^{Table 13 Note 2}	median number of appearances^{Table 13 Note 3}	average number of days between appearances^{Table 13 Note 4}	Percent change in number of appearances	Difference in median number of appearances	Difference in average days between appearances
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 offences^{Table 13 Note 5}	7,697	10	54	8,537	11	52	11	1	-2
Major assault^{Table 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
Theft^{Table 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 offences^{Table 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. Return to note 1 referrer 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). Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 The median is the point at which half of all charges had more court appearances and half had fewer court appearances. Return to note 3 referrer 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. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 Includes, for example, sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching, child pornography, luring a child via a computer and sexual exploitation. Return to note 5 referrer Note 6 Includes, for example, assault with a weapon (level 2) and aggravated assault (level 3). Return to note 6 referrer Note 7 Includes, for example, theft over $5,000, theft $5,000 or under, as well as motor vehicle theft. Return to note 7 referrer Note 8 Includes drug trafficking, production, importing and exporting. Return to note 8 referrer 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.

Date modified:: 2018-02-13

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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

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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