Table 14
Charges completed in adult criminal superior court, by type of offence, Canada, 2014/2015 to 2015/2016

Table 14
Charges completed in adult criminal superior court, by type of offence, Canada, 2014/2015 to 2015/2016
Table summary
This table displays the results of Charges completed in adult criminal superior court. The information is grouped by Type of offence (appearing as row headers), 2014/2015, 2015/2016, Percent change in number of charges and Difference in median length of charges, calculated using number and median length of charge (days) units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence 2014/2015 2015/2016 Percent change in number of charges Difference in median length of charges
numberTable 14 Note 1 median length of charge (days)Table 14 Note 2 numberTable 14 Note 1 median length of charge (days)Table 14 Note 2
Violent offences 4,582 409 4,412 461 -4 52
Homicide 151 403 94 471 -38 68
Attempted murder 71 266 37 465 -48 199
Robbery 396 389 336 362 -15 -27
Sexual assault 578 477 660 567 14 90
Other sexual offencesTable 14 Note 3 635 472 674 551 6 79
Major assaultTable 14 Note 4 1,011 371 932 420 -8 49
Common assault 659 423 566 381 -14 -42
Uttering threats 607 355 565 383 -7 28
Criminal harassment 165 399 149 364 -10 -35
Other violent offences 309 429 399 435 29 6
Property offences 2,090 423 1,652 390 -21 -33
TheftTable 14 Note 5 297 430 207 503 -30 73
Break and enter 502 326 485 308 -3 -18
Fraud 538 838 354 471 -34 -367
Mischief 172 330 138 354 -20 24
Possess stolen property 396 421 346 360 -13 -61
Other property offences 185 473 122 373 -34 -100
Administration of justice offences 845 343 659 334 -22 -9
Fail to appear 5 88 2 376 -60 288
Breach of probation 127 243 125 307 -2 64
Unlawfully at large 5 640 7 176 40 -464
Fail to comply with order 461 355 344 317 -25 -38
Other administration of justice offences 247 401 181 367 -27 -34
Other Criminal Code offences 1,615 386 1,844 474 14 88
Weapons 1,271 323 1,456 421 15 98
Prostitution 70 767 30 682 -57 -85
Disturbing the peace 3 81 0 Note ...: not applicable -100 Note ...: not applicable
Residual Criminal Code offences 271 655 358 683 32 28
Criminal Code (excluding traffic) 9,132 401 8,567 437 -6 36
Criminal Code traffic offences 433 492 368 540 -15 48
Impaired driving 215 569 202 591 -6 22
Other Criminal Code traffic offences 218 436 166 481 -24 45
Total Criminal Code offences 9,565 406 8,935 443 -7 37
Other federal statute offences 2,611 382 4,170 328 60 -54
Drug possession 162 322 181 394 12 72
Other drug offencesTable 14 Note 6 891 336 955 382 7 46
Youth Criminal Justice Act 4 483 2 99 -50 -384
Residual federal statute offences 1,554 445 3,032 246 95 -199
Total offences 12,176 401 13,105 419 8 18
... 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

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 case lengths.

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Note 3

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 4

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

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Note 5

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

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Note 6

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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