Table 16
Police-reported youth Crime Severity Indexes, Canada, 2009 to 2019


Table 16
Police-reported youth Crime Severity Indexes, Canada, 2009 to 2019
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported youth Crime Severity Indexes. The information is grouped by Year (appearing as row headers), Total Youth Crime Severity Index, Youth Violent Crime Severity Index and Youth Non-violent Crime Severity Index, calculated using index and percent change from previous year units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Year Total Youth Crime Severity Index Youth Violent Crime Severity Index Youth Non-violent Crime Severity Index
index percent change from previous year index percent change from previous year index percent change from previous year
2009 95.6 Note 0svalue rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 96.7 1 94.7 -1
2010 90.0 -6 93.2 -4 87.6 -8
2011 81.7 -9 87.5 -6 77.3 -12
2012 77.4 -5 82.3 -6 73.6 -5
2013 66.2 -15 71.2 -13 62.3 -15
2014 60.6 -8 64.8 -9 57.4 -8
2015 60.4 Note 0svalue rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 66.4 2 55.9 -3
2016 59.9 -1 70.9 7 51.8 -7
2017 62.7 5 80.5 14 49.9 -4
2018Note r: revised 56.6 -10 77.1 -4 42.1 -16
2019 54.6 -4 78.8 2 37.5 -11
Percent change 2009 to 2019 -43 Note ...: not applicable -18 Note ...: not applicable -60 Note ...: not applicable
... not applicable
0s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded
r revised
Note: Data is based on the number of youth aged 12 to 17 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. The Youth Crime Severity Indexes are based on Criminal Code incidents, including traffic offences, as well as other federal statute violations. The base index was set at 100 for 2006 for Canada. Data on the Youth Crime Severity Indexes are available beginning in 1998. Percent changes are based on unrounded rates. Populations are based on July 1st estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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