Table 7
Cases linked to police-reported attempted murder and aggravated assault incidents by most serious court decision and gender-related status, criminal courts, 2009/2010 to 2020/2021


Table 7
Cases linked to police-reported attempted murder and aggravated assault incidents by most serious court decision and gender-related status, criminal courts, 2009/2010 to 2020/2021
Table summary
This table displays the results of Cases linked to police-reported attempted murder and aggravated assault incidents by most serious court decision and gender-related status. The information is grouped by Offence - most serious decision (appearing as row headers), Gender-related violence against women and girls, Non-gender-related violence against women and girls and Violence against men and boys, calculated using number, percent and percent guilty units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Offence - most serious decisionTable 7 Note 1 Gender-related violence against women and girlsTable 7 Note 2 Non-gender-related violence against women and girlsTable 7 Note 3 Violence against men and boysTable 7 Note 4
number percent percent guilty number percent percent guilty number percent percent guilty
Homicide 9 0.2 33.3 10 0.7 50.0 34 0.3 44.1
Attempted murder or other violation causing death 173 3.8 37.0 82 5.5 37.8 445 4.4 27.2
Aggravated sexual assault 158 3.5 38.6 15 1.0 80.0 28 0.3 17.9
Level 1 or level 2 sexual assault 122 2.7 56.6 4 0.3 25.0 10 0.1 60.0
Aggravated assault 1,657 36.4 45.4 674 45.2 53.9 5,038 49.9 50.2
Level 1 or level 2 physical assault 1,393 30.6 85.0 489 32.8 86.9 3,023 29.9 90.9
Other violent crime 372 8.2 73.9 69 4.6 71.0 411 4.1 69.1
Property crime 158 3.5 84.2 45 3.0 75.6 221 2.2 78.7
Other Criminal Code offence 425 9.3 87.3 87 5.8 79.3 750 7.4 76.3
Other violation 84 1.8 85.7 17 1.1 82.4 146 1.4 80.8
Total 4,551 100 65.6 1,492 100 67.2 10,106 100 65.0
Note 1

Each case is represented by a single charge, or the "most serious decision" (MSD). The MSD is determined by severity of court decision, ranked as follows: (1) guilty, (2) guilty of a lesser offence, (3) acquitted, (4) stay of proceedings, (5) withdrawn, dismissed or discharged, (6) not criminally responsible, (7) other and (8) transfer out of court jurisdiction. Criminal Code sanctions are considered when two or more charges result in the same MSD (e.g., guilty), where the more serious offence is reported. The listed offences are the most serious conviction if there was a finding of guilt for one or more charges, but also represent the most serious offence if there was no conviction for any of the charges in the case.

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Note 2

Gender-related violence against women and girls are solved incidents of attempted murder or aggravated assault committed by a male accused who was an intimate partner or family member of the victim, or aggravated sexual assault committed by a male accused, regardless of their relationship to the victim.

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Note 3

Non-gender-related violence against women and girls are solved incidents of attempted murder, aggravated assault and aggravated sexual assault perpetrated by a female or by someone other than an intimate partner or family member.

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Note 4

Violence against men and boys are solved incidents of attempted murder, aggravated assault or aggravated sexual assault.

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Note: Analysis is restricted to these crimes involving a single victim and single accused. Excludes victims and accused where gender was coded as unknown. Represents all completed cases successfully linked to a relevant offence 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.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, Trend Database and Integrated Criminal Court Survey linked file.
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