Table 7
Completed charges linked to police-reported homicides, by type of charge completed in adult criminal or youth court and Indigenous identity and gender of victim and final decision, Canada, 2009/10 to 2020/21


Table 7
Completed charges linked to police-reported homicides, by type of charge completed in adult criminal or youth court and Indigenous identity and gender of victim and final decision, Canada, 2009/10 to 2020/21
Table summary
This table displays the results of Completed charges linked to police-reported homicides. The information is grouped by Offence for which charge was completed in court (appearing as row headers), Indigenous identity and gender of victim, Indigenous women and girls, Non-Indigenous women and girls, Men and boys, Guilty decision, Not guilty decision and number of charges, calculated using percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Offence for which charge was completed in courtTable 7 Note 4 Indigenous identity and gender of victim
Indigenous women and girlsTable 7 Note 1 Non-Indigenous women and girlsTable 7 Note 2 Men and boysTable 7 Note 3
Guilty decision Not guilty decisionTable 7 Note 5 number of charges Guilty decision Not guilty decisionTable 7 Note 5 number of charges Guilty decision Not guilty decisionTable 7 Note 5 number of charges
percent percent percent
Homicide 45 55 221 43 57 668 33 67 3,000
First- or second-degree murderTable 7 Note 6 30 70 130 36 64 534 16 84 1,973
Manslaughter 66 34 91 72 28 132 66 34 1,026
Infanticide Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable 0 100 0 2 100 0 1
Attempted murder or other violation causing death 34 66 35 14 86 94 16 84 358
Aggravated physical assault 24 76 34 13 87 38 13 88 328
Other violent crime 21 79 96 24 76 241 15 85 1,348
Property crime 52 48 23 23 77 91 23 77 354
Total, Other Criminal Code offences 20 80 173 15 85 457 18 82 2,205
Breach of probation 20 80 51 9 91 35 20 80 346
Failure to comply with order 20 80 49 30 70 83 18 82 566
Possession of weapons 20 80 25 3 97 151 11 89 635
Other Criminal Code offence 21 79 48 20 80 188 24 76 658
Other violation 11 89 19 33 67 64 26 74 453
Total 31 69 601 29 71 1,653 23 77 8,046
... not applicable
0 true zero or a value rounded to zero
Note 1

Indigenous victims are those identified by police as First Nations (Status or non-Status), Métis, Inuit, or an Indigenous identity where the Indigenous group was not known to police.

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Note 2

Non-Indigenous victims includes instances where police have confirmed that a victim is not identified as an Indigenous person.

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Note 3

Reliable information on the Indigenous identity of men and boys who are victims of homicide is only available beginning in 2014. For that reason, all men and boys are included in one category in this table for reference.

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Note 4

Represents all charges laid against persons accused in an incident police determined to be a homicide, including any charges for related or less serious offences, where incidents successfully linked to at least one charge completed in adult criminal or youth courts in Canada between 2009/10 and 2020/21. Incidents may not have linked to courts data for multiple reasons, including survey coverage and time required to complete a case. See "Survey description" for more details about the linkage and methodology.

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Note 5

Includes final decisions of stayed, withdrawn, dismissed, discharged, acquittal, and other final decisions.

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Note 6

Information on the specific murder charge completed cannot be broken down in the data provided by courts for data quality reasons.

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Note: Indigenous identity is reported by the police and is determined through information found with the victim, such as Status cards, or through information supplied by the victims' families, community members, or other sources (i.e., such as band records, or forensic evidence such as genetic testing). There may be some homicides in a given year's total that occurred in previous years. Homicides are counted according to the year in which they are reported to Statistics Canada. Excludes persons whose gender was reported as unknown by police. See "Data sources and methodology" for more details about the linkage and methodology.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Homicide Survey and Integrated Criminal Courts Survey (linked file).
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