Table 2
Charges laid in cases linked to police-reported homicides by type of charge completed and gender-related status, criminal courts, Canada, 2009/2010 to 2020/2021


Table 2
Charges laid in cases linked to police-reported homicides by type of charge completed and gender-related status, criminal courts, Canada, 2009/2010 to 2020/2021
Table summary
This table displays the results of Charges laid in cases linked to police-reported homicides by type of charge completed and gender-related status. The information is grouped by Offence for which charge was completed in court (appearing as row headers), Gender-related homicides of women and girls, Non-gender-related homicides of women and girls and Homicide of men and boys, calculated using number, percent and percent guilty units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Offence for which charge was completed in court Gender-related homicide of women and girlsTable 2 Note 1 Non-gender-related homicide of women and girlsTable 2 Note 2 Homicide of men and boysTable 2 Note 3
number percent percent guilty number percent percent guilty number percent percent guilty
Homicide 533 45.5 48.6 367 32.5 36.5 3,000 37.3 32.9
First or second degree murder 419 35.8 40.3 251 22.2 25.5 1,973 24.5 15.5
Manslaughter 114 9.7 78.9 114 10.1 59.6 1,026 12.8 66.4
Infanticide 0 0.0 Note ...: not applicable 2 0.2 100.0 1 0.0 100.0
Attempted murder or other violation causing death 47 4.0 23.4 82 7.3 17.1 358 4.4 15.9
Aggravated assault 36 3.1 11.1 36 3.2 25.0 328 4.1 12.5
Sexual offenceTable 2 Note 4 9 0.8 22.2 9 0.8 11.1 10 0.1 10.0
Other violent crimeTable 2 Note 5 151 12.9 26.5 170 15.1 21.2 1,338 16.6 15.1
Property crime 43 3.7 32.6 74 6.6 25.7 354 4.4 23.2
Total, Other Criminal Code offences 323 27.6 17.0 321 28.4 15.6 2,205 27.4 18.0
Breach of probation 47 4.0 21.3 43 3.8 7.0 346 4.3 19.9
Failure to comply with order 67 5.7 23.9 70 6.2 27.1 566 7.0 18.0
Possession of weapons 89 7.6 6.7 88 7.8 4.5 635 7.9 11.3
Other Criminal Code offence 120 10.2 19.2 120 10.6 20.0 658 8.2 23.6
Other violation 29 2.5 41.4 70 6.2 15.7 453 5.6 26.5
Total 1,171 100.0 33.9 1,129 100.0 24.3 8,046 100.0 23.5
... not applicable
0 true zero or a value rounded to zero
Note 1

Gender-related homicide cases are solved homicides committed by at least one male accused who killed at least one female victim who was an intimate partner or family member of the accused, who was sexually assaulted during the killing, or who was identified by police as a sex worker.

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Note 2

Non-gender-related homicides of women and girls require that no gender-related criteria are present in the case, but involve at least one female victim.

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Note 3

Homicide cases of men and boys require that no female victims were killed in the same incident.

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Note 4

Includes sexual assault level 1, sexual assault level 2 (with a weapon or causing bodily harm) and sexual assault level 3 (aggravated sexual assault). Also includes other sexual violations (e.g., sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching, sexual exploitation, corruption of morals).

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Note 5

Includes all other violent violations not otherwise listed.

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Note: Victims and accused persons for whom gender was reported as unknown by police are excluded from this table. 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 2009/2010 and 2020/2021. 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 Courts Survey linked file.
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