Table 2
Persons accused of police-reported crime for selected offences, by sex of the accused, Canada, 2017

Table 2
Persons accused of police-reported crime for selected offences, by sex of the accused, Canada, 2017
Table summary
This table displays the results of Persons accused of police-reported crime for selected offences. The information is grouped by Type of offence (appearing as row headers), Female accused, Male accused and Total accused, calculated using number and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence	Female accused		Male accused		Total accused
Type of offence	number	rate	number	rate	number	rate
Total offences	236,841	1,490	705,936	4,523	942,777	2,993
*Total Criminal Code* offences^{Table 2 Note 1}**	210,946	1,327	619,087	3,966	830,033	2,635
Total violent crime	58,115	366	198,850	1,274	256,965	816
Homicide^{Table 2 Note 2}	69	0	450	3	519	2
Other violations causing death^{Table 2 Note 3}	13	0	52	0	65	0
Attempted murder	80	1	546	3	626	2
Sexual assault—all levels	307	2	10,624	68	10,931	35
Sexual assault level 3, aggravated	3	0	94	1	97	0
Sexual assault level 2, weapon or bodily harm	21	0	259	2	280	1
Sexual assault, level 1	283	2	10,271	66	10,554	34
Other sexual violations	199	1	5,065	32	5,264	17
Sexual violations specific to children^{Table 2 Note 4}	173	1	4,530	29	4,703	15
Sexual violations not specific to children^{Table 2 Note 5}	26	0	535	3	561	2
Assault—all levels	40,403	254	114,102	731	154,505	490
Assault level 3, aggravated	597	4	2,760	18	3,357	11
Assault level 2, weapon or bodily harm	9,060	57	27,608	177	36,668	116
Assault level 1	30,746	193	83,734	536	114,480	363
Other assaults^{Table 2 Note 6}	2,678	17	6,368	41	9,046	29
Firearms - use of, discharge, pointing	151	1	1,385	9	1,536	5
Robbery^{Table 2 Note 7}	1,806	11	10,705	69	12,511	40
Forcible confinement, kidnapping or abduction^{Table 2 Note 8}	316	2	3,204	21	3,520	11
Trafficking in persons	45	0	191	1	236	1
Extortion	164	1	957	6	1,121	4
Intimidation^{Table 2 Note 9}	200	1	1,031	7	1,231	4
Criminal harassment	2,852	18	10,464	67	13,316	42
Uttering threats	6,499	41	28,376	182	34,875	111
Indecent/harassing communications	1,806	11	3,126	20	4,932	16
Non-consensual distribution of intimate images	165	1	750	5	915	3
Other violent Criminal Code violations^{Table 2 Note 10}	362	2	1,454	9	1,816	6
Total property crime	81,852	515	196,679	1,260	278,531	884
Breaking and entering^{Table 2 Note 11}	4,784	30	26,479	170	31,263	99
Possession of stolen property^{Table 2 Note 12}	4,011	25	13,750	88	17,761	56
Trafficking in stolen goods	179	1	704	5	883	3
Theft of motor vehicle^{Table 2 Note 13}	2,633	17	9,653	62	12,286	39
Theft over $5,000^{Table 2 Note 14}	403	3	1,350	9	1,753	6
Theft of $5,000 or under^{Table 2 Note 15}	9,422	59	26,625	171	36,047	114
Shoplifting^{Table 2 Note 16}	30,375	191	39,854	255	70,229	223
Fraud	8,734	55	18,601	119	27,335	87
Identity theft	214	1	575	4	789	3
Identity fraud	880	6	2,057	13	2,937	9
Mischief^{Table 2 Note 17}	19,956	126	55,858	358	75,814	241
Arson	261	2	1,173	8	1,434	5
*Total other Criminal Code* offences**	70,979	447	223,558	1,432	294,537	935
Weapons violations^{Table 2 Note 18}	2,031	13	12,539	80	14,570	46
Prostitution^{Table 2 Note 19}	17	0.1	46	0.3	63	0.2
Disturb the peace	14,863	94	36,896	236	51,759	164
Administration of justice^{Table 2 Note 20}	50,465	318	158,590	1,016	209,055	664
Other violations^{Table 2 Note 21}	3,603	23	15,487	99	19,090	61
Drug offences	17,464	110	69,328	444	86,792	276
Possession—cannabis	7,160	45	33,317	213	40,477	128
Trafficking, production or distribution—cannabis	1,217	8	5,273	34	6,490	21
Possession, trafficking, production or distribution—other drugs^{Table 2 Note 22}	9,087	57	30,738	197	39,825	126
Other federal statute violations	8,431	53	17,521	112	25,952	82
Youth Criminal Justice Act	1,064	7	3,015	19	4,079	13
Other federal statutes^{Table 2 Note 23}	7,367	46	14,506	93	21,873	69
Note 1 Includes violent crime, property crime and other Criminal Code offences. Excludes drug offences and other federal statutes. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Includes 1^st degree murder, 2^nd degree murder, manslaughter and infanticide. Homicide data are extracted from the Homicide Survey database. In general, the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (UCR) counts any adult and youth charged for the year in which the charge was laid. The homicide totals, which come from the Homicide Survey, count any adult or youth charged with a homicide that occurred in the reference year, regardless of when the charge was laid. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Includes criminal negligence causing death and other related violations causing death. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 Includes sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching, sexual exploitation, making sexually explicit material available to children, parent or guardian procuring sexual activity, householder permitting sexual activity, luring a child via a computer, agreement or arrangement - sexual offence against child and bestiality in the presence of, or incites, a child. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 Includes sexual exploitation of a person with a disability, incest, corrupting morals of a child, anal intercourse, bestiality - commit or compel person, voyeurism and other sexual violations. Return to note 5 referrer Note 6 Includes unlawfully causing bodily harm, assault against peace officer - level 1, assault against peace officer with a weapon or causing bodily harm - level 2, aggravated assault against peace officer - level 3, criminal negligence causing bodily harm and other assaults. Return to note 6 referrer Note 7 Includes robbery and robbery to steal a firearm. Return to note 7 referrer Note 8 Includes abduction under 14, not by a parent or guardian, abduction under 16, removal of children from Canada, abduction under 14 contravening a custody order, abduction under 14 by a parent or guardian, forcible confinement and kidnapping. Return to note 8 referrer Note 9 Includes intimidation of a justice system participant or a journalist and intimidation of a non-justice participant. Return to note 9 referrer Note 10 Includes conspiracy to commit murder, trap likely to or causing bodily harm, hostage-taking, explosives causing death/bodily harm, arson, failure to comply with mandatory safeguards in relation to medical assistance in dying, forging or destroying documents related to assistance requests with criminal intent and other violent violations. Return to note 10 referrer Note 11 Includes breaking and entering, breaking and entering to steal a firearm and break and enter to steal a firearm from a motor vehicle. Return to note 11 referrer Note 12 Includes possession of stolen property, possession of stolen goods over $5,000 and possession of stolen goods $5,000 or under. Return to note 12 referrer Note 13 Theft of a motor vehicle over $5,000, motor vehicle theft and theft of a motor vehicle $5,000 or under. Return to note 13 referrer Note 14 Includes theft over $5,000 and theft over $5,000 from a motor vehicle. Return to note 14 referrer Note 15 Includes theft $5,000 or under and theft $5,000 or under from a motor vehicle. Return to note 15 referrer Note 16 Includes shoplifting over $5,000 and shoplifting $5,000 or under. Return to note 16 referrer Note 17 Includes mischief, mischief in relation to cultural property, hate-motivated mischief relating to property used by identifiable group, and mischief relating to war memorials. Return to note 17 referrer Note 18 Includes possession of weapons, weapons possession contrary to order, weapons trafficking, unauthorized importing or exporting of firearms, firearms documentation or administration, unsafe storage of firearms, firearm transfers or serial numbers, and other offensive weapons. Return to note 18 referrer Note 19 Includes living off the avails of prostitution of a person under 18, communicating to provide sexual services for consideration, obtaining or communicating with a person under 18 for purpose of sex, stopping or impeding traffic for the purpose of offering, providing or obtaining sexual services for consideration and other prostitution offences. Return to note 19 referrer Note 20 Includes failure to comply with order, escapes or helps to escape from lawful custody, prisoner unlawfully at large, failure to appear, breach of probation and other offences against the administration of law and justice. Return to note 20 referrer Note 21 Includes offences such as counterfeiting, child pornography, indecent acts, and terrorism. Return to note 21 referrer Note 22 Includes all other drugs listed under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CSDA), such as cocaine, methamphetamine or ecstasy (MDA), heroin and opioids such as Fentanyl, barbiturates, LSD, and "date rape" drugs. Trafficking and production of other drugs includes the possession, production, selling or importing of anything (such as precursors) with the knowledge that it will be used in the production or trafficking of a controlled substance (as defined in section 2(1) of the CSDA). Return to note 22 referrer Note 23 Includes violations related to the Bankruptcy Act, the Income Tax Act, the Canada Health Act, the Customs Act, the Competition Act, the Excise Act, the Firearms Act, the National Defence Act and other federal statutes. Return to note 23 referrer Note: Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population aged 12 to 89 years. Populations based on July 1st estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division. Includes accused persons between the ages of 12 and 89 years. Excludes cases where the sex of the accused is unknown. Counts are based on the most serious offence within a violation. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.

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Table 2
Persons accused of police-reported crime for selected offences, by sex of the accused, Canada, 2017

Table 2 Persons accused of police-reported crime for selected offences, by sex of the accused, Canada, 2017

Table 2
Persons accused of police-reported crime for selected offences, by sex of the accused, Canada, 2017