Table 19
Police-reported youth crime, by selected violent offences, by province or territory, 2018


Table 19
Police-reported crime for selected offences, by province or territory, 2018
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported youth crime. The information is grouped by Province or territory (appearing as row headers), Homicide, Sexual assault (level 1, 2 and 3), Major assault (level 2 and 3) and Common assault, calculated using number, rate and percent change in rate 2017 to 2018 units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Province or territory HomicideTable 19 Note 1 Sexual assault (level 1, 2 and 3) Major assault (level 2 and 3)Table 19 Note 2 Common assault
number rate rate percent change in rate 2017 to 2018Table 19 Note 3 rate percent change in rate 2017 to 2018Table 19 Note 3 rate percent change in rate 2017 to 2018Table 19 Note 3
Newfoundland and Labrador 0 0.00 85 83 203 6 693 -2
Prince Edward Island 0 0.00 79 -43 49 -38 356 -34
Nova Scotia 0 0.00 107 34 195 18 717 -8
New Brunswick 0 0.00 130 18 156 -1 742 16
Quebec 2 0.41 136 29 162 -4 539 0sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded
Ontario 24 2.53 89 -2 140 -8 436 -2
Manitoba 4 4.04 121 2 540 6 1,059 -1
Saskatchewan 1 1.19 120 14 454 -5 869 -1
Alberta 4 1.34 83 17 208 2 499 1
British Columbia 2 0.67 63 0 112 -3 357 2
Yukon 0 0.00 80 Note ...: not applicable 681 54 2,164 -29
Northwest Territories 0 0.00 539 40 419 -61 3,445 21
Nunavut 0 0.00 272 55 643 11 1,855 -38
Canada 37 1.56 99 10 181 -3 521 -1
Table 19 continued
Police-reported youth crime, by selected violent offences, by province or territory, 2018
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported youth crime. The information is grouped by Province or territory (appearing as row headers), Robbery, Sexual violations against children, Total violent crime and Total crime (youth crime rate), calculated using rate and percent change in rate 2017 to 2018 units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Province or territory Robbery Sexual violations against childrenTable 19 Note 4Table 19 Note 5 Total violent crimeTable 19 Note 6 Total crime (youth crime rate)Table 19 Note 7
rate percent change in rate 2017 to 2018Table 19 Note 3 rate percent change in rate 2017 to 2018Table 19 Note 3 rate percent change in rate 2017 to 2018Table 19 Note 3 rate percent change in rate 2017 to 2018Table 19 Note 3
Newfoundland and Labrador 38 35 57 7 1,438 -7 3,797 -14
Prince Edward Island 20 Note ...: not applicable 59 Note ...: not applicable 831 -19 2,166 -15
Nova Scotia 93 24 39 -21 1,558 -8 3,861 -19
New Brunswick 30 28 47 11 1,471 5 3,450 -8
Quebec 81 -4 96 11 1,571 2 3,132 -3
Ontario 157 -16 27 -14 1,121 -6 2,733 -13
Manitoba 236 7 84 13 2,533 -1 6,526 -11
Saskatchewan 130 -24 63 -11 2,214 -7 7,947 -23
Alberta 126 52 40 3 1,245 1 3,754 -5
British Columbia 48 -1 24 -30 809 -5 2,474 -8
Yukon 80 Note ...: not applicable 0 Note ...: not applicable 3,928 -13 15,752 -15
Northwest Territories 150 Note ...: not applicable 0 Note ...: not applicable 5,722 2 21,600 -2
Nunavut 25 Note ...: not applicable 173 -37 4,131 -16 17,339 -9
Canada 119 -5 48 -2 1,323 -3 3,372 -10
... not applicable
0s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded
Note 1

Due to the variability in small numbers, percent changes in the rates of youth accused of homicide are not calculated.

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Note 2

Excludes assault against a peace officer.

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Note 3

Due to the variability in small numbers, percent changes have not been calculated when the number of offenders is below five in any given year.

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Note 4

Excludes sexual assaults against children and youth, which are reported as level 1, 2 or 3 sexual assault.

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Note 5

Includes sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching, sexual exploitation, luring a child via telecommunications/agreement or arrangement, making sexually explicit material available to a child for the purpose of facilitating sexual offences against children/youth and the offences of parent or guardian procuring sexual activity, householder permitting prohibited sexual activity, agreement or arrangement of a sexual offence against a child, and bestiality in the presence of or inciting a child (s. 160(3)). Incidents of child pornography are not included in the category of sexual violations against children.

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Note 6

See Table 14 for a list of offences included in the total violent crime category.

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Note 7

Crime rates are based upon Criminal Code incidents, excluding traffic offences. See Table 14 for a list of offences included in the violent crime, property crime and other Criminal Code offence categories.

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Note: Data is based on the number of youth aged 12 to 17 years who were either charged (or recommended for charging) by police or diverted from the formal criminal justice system through the use of warnings, cautions, referrals to community programs, etc. Counts are based upon the most serious violation in the incident. One incident may involve multiple violations. While the definition of youth and the legislation governing youth justice have changed over the years, data for police-reported rates of youth accused of total, violent, property and other crime categories are available from 1977. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 youth population. Percent changes are based on unrounded rates. Populations are based on July 1st estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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