Table 15
Charges completed in adult criminal superior court, under and over presumptive ceiling, by type of offence, Canada, 2014/2015 to 2015/2016

Table 15
Charges completed in adult criminal superior 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 superior 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 15 Note 1 Under presumptive ceiling Over presumptive ceilingTable 15 Note 1
numberTable 15 Note 2 Table 15 Note 3
Violent offences 3,802 780 3,719 693 -2 -11
Homicide 130 21 83 11 -36 -48
Attempted murder 62 9 33 4 -47 -56
Robbery 324 72 296 40 -9 -44
Sexual assault 443 135 528 132 19 -2
Other sexual offencesTable 15 Note 4 478 157 543 131 14 -17
Major assaultTable 15 Note 5 870 141 788 144 -9 2
Common assault 552 107 486 80 -12 -25
Uttering threats 540 67 491 74 -9 10
Criminal harassment 146 19 131 18 -10 -5
Other violent offences 257 52 340 59 32 13
Property offences 1,590 500 1,398 254 -12 -49
TheftTable 15 Note 6 242 55 163 44 -33 -20
Break and enter 455 47 445 40 -2 -15
Fraud 279 259 251 103 -10 -60
Mischief 157 15 123 15 -22 0
Possess stolen property 323 73 308 38 -5 -48
Other property offences 134 51 108 14 -19 -73
Administration of justice offences 783 62 621 38 -21 -39
Fail to appear 5 0 2 0 -60 Note ...: not applicable
Breach of probation 125 2 118 7 -6 250
Unlawfully at large 3 2 7 0 133 -100
Fail to comply with order 432 29 333 11 -23 -62
Other administration of justice offences 218 29 161 20 -26 -31
Other Criminal Code offences 1,331 284 1,523 321 14 13
Weapons 1,103 168 1,217 239 10 42
Prostitution 48 22 24 6 -50 -73
Disturbing the peace 2 1 0 0 -100 -100
Residual Criminal Code offences 178 93 282 76 58 -18
Criminal Code (excluding traffic) 7,506 1,626 7,261 1,306 -3 -20
Criminal Code traffic offences 344 89 264 104 -23 17
Impaired driving 162 53 145 57 -10 8
Other Criminal Code traffic offences 182 36 119 47 -35 31
Total Criminal Code offences 7,850 1,715 7,525 1,410 -4 -18
Other federal statute offences 2,234 377 3,635 535 63 42
Drug possession 156 6 175 6 12 0
Other drug offencesTable 15 Note 7 852 39 881 74 3 90
Youth Criminal Justice Act 4 0 2 0 -50 Note ...: not applicable
Residual federal statute offences 1,222 332 2,577 455 111 37
Total offences 10,084 2,092 11,160 1,945 11 -7
... not applicable
Note 1

In superior court, charges completed in more than 30 months (with or without 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 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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