Table 9
Decisions in completed court cases involving a completed homicide charge, by Indigenous identity of victim and accused and gender of victim, Canada, 2014/15 to 2020/21


Table 9
Decisions in completed court cases involving a completed homicide charge, by Indigenous identity of victim and accused and gender of victim, Canada, 2014/15 to 2020/21
Table summary
This table displays the results of Decisions in completed court cases involving a completed homicide charge. The information is grouped by Indigenous identity of person accused and final decision (appearing as row headers), Indigenous identity and gender of victim, Indigenous women and girls, Non-Indigenous women and girls and Men and boys, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Indigenous identity of person accused and final decision Indigenous identity and gender of victim
Indigenous women and girlsTable 9 Note 1 Non-Indigenous women and girlsTable 9 Note 2 Men and boysTable 9 Note 3
number percent number percent number percent
Indigenous personTable 9 Note 1 85 83 17 5 417 38
Guilty 50 59 12 71 229 55
Stayed 16 19 2 12 107 26
Withdrawn, dismissed, or discharged 10 12 2 12 64 15
Other 9 11 1 6 17 4
Non-Indigenous personTable 9 Note 2 17 17 293 95 695 63
Guilty 15 88 163 56 315 45
Stayed 1 6 16 5 77 11
Withdrawn, dismissed, or discharged 1 6 84 29 253 36
Other 0 0 30 10 50 7
Total accusedTable 9 Note 4 102 100 310 100 1,112 100
Guilty 65 64 175 56 544 49
Stayed 17 17 18 6 184 17
Withdrawn, dismissed, or discharged 11 11 86 28 317 29
Other 9 9 31 10 67 6
0 true zero or a value rounded to zero
Note 1

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

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Note 3

All men and boys are included in one category in this table for reference.

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Note 4

Total excludes accused persons for whom the Indigenous identity was not provided by the accused person or was reported as unknown by police.

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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). Represents all completed cases where incidents successfully linked to at least one charge completed in adult criminal or youth courts in Canada between 2009/10 and 2020/21. The decision refers to the most serious decision in the case. Incidents may not have linked to courts data for multiple reasons, including survey coverage and time required to complete a case. 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 Court Survey (linked file).
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