Table 6
Characteristics of persons accused of homicide associated with completed court cases by gender-related status, criminal courts, Canada, 2009/2010 to 2020/2021


Table 6
Characteristics of persons accused of homicide associated with completed court cases by gender-related status, criminal courts, Canada, 2009/2010 to 2020/2021
Table summary
This table displays the results of Characteristics of persons accused of homicide associated with completed court cases by gender-related status. The information is grouped by Accused characteristic (appearing as row headers), Gender-related homicide of women and girls, Non-gender-related homicide of women and girls and Homicide of men and boys, calculated using number, percent and percent guilty units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Accused characteristic Gender-related homicide of women and girlsTable 6 Note 1 Non-gender-related homicide of women and girlsTable 6 Note 2 Homicide of men and boysTable 6 Note 3
number percent percent guilty number percent percent guilty number percent percent guilty
Gender
Men and boys 493 100.0 58.0 200 61.5 46.0 2,232 90.7 50.4
Women and girls ... Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable 125 38.5 54.4 229 9.3 48.9
Total 493 100.0 58.0 325 100.0 49.2 2,461 100.0 50.3
Age group
12 to 17 years 29 5.9 72.4 34 10.5 85.3 243 9.9 65.0
18 to 24 years 84 17.0 51.2 98 30.2 42.9 839 34.1 48.6
25 to 34 years 139 28.2 56.1 81 24.9 48.1 823 33.4 47.3
35 to 44 years 110 22.3 58.2 67 20.6 38.8 290 11.8 50.0
45 to 54 years 77 15.6 68.8 25 7.7 44.0 171 6.9 51.5
55 to 64 years 27 5.5 51.9 9 2.8 55.6 60 2.4 56.7
65 years and older 27 5.5 48.1 11 3.4 72.7 35 1.4 45.7
Unknown 0 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable 0 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable 0 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable
Total 493 100.0 58.0 325 100.0 49.2 2,461 100.0 50.3
Involvement in illegal activities
Yes 35 7.1 62.9 53 16.5 37.7 788 32.3 46.3
No 455 92.9 58.0 269 83.5 51.7 1,649 67.7 52.4
Unknown 3 Note ...: not applicable 0.0 3 Note ...: not applicable 33.3 24 Note ...: not applicable 37.5
Total 493 100.0 58.0 325 100.0 49.2 2,461 100.0 50.3
Previous convictionTable 6 Note 4
Yes 260 53.0 63.8 176 54.5 50.6 1,697 69.7 49.4
Violent offencesTable 6 Note 5 182 70.0 60.4 123 69.9 52.8 1,198 70.6 49.2
Property offencesTable 6 Note 6 25 9.6 68.0 29 16.5 37.9 235 13.8 46.8
Other offencesTable 6 Note 7 59 22.7 69.5 40 22.7 32.5 445 26.2 45.2
No 231 47.0 51.1 147 45.5 47.6 737 30.3 53.2
Unknown 2 Note ...: not applicable 100.0 2 Note ...: not applicable 50.0 27 Note ...: not applicable 29.6
Total 493 100.0 58.0 325 100.0 49.2 2,461 100.0 50.3
Consumed alcohol, drugs, or intoxicating substance
Yes 250 50.7 64.0 150 46.2 57.3 1,276 51.8 55.8
No 140 28.4 51.4 86 26.5 40.7 401 16.3 47.6
Unknown 103 20.9 52.4 89 27.4 43.8 784 31.9 42.7
Total 493 100.0 58.0 325 100.0 49.2 2,461 100.0 50.3
... 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

The criminal history categories are not mutually exclusive. An accused person can have a criminal history pertaining to violent, property and other offences.

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Note 5

Includes violent offences such as homicide, sexual assault and other sexual violations, assault, kidnapping, trafficking of persons, hostage taking, robbery, commodification of sexual activities, harassment, uttering threats and other violence offences not otherwise listed.

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Note 6

Includes non-violent offences such as arson, break and enter, theft, fraud, mischief and other crimes against property not otherwise listed.

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Note 7

Includes other Criminal Code offences (e.g., gaming/betting, offensive weapons), other Criminal Code offences not otherwise specified. Also includes offences under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA) or Cannabis Act as well as other federal or provincial statute offences.

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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 completed cases successfully linked to a homicide reported by police in Canada between 2009 and 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. Percent calculations exclude unknown age, involvement in illegal activities and prior convictions.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Homicide Survey and Integrated Criminal Courts Survey linked file.
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