Table 3
Re-contact with police over a nine-year follow-up period, by number of re-contacts, cohort offence type and rural or urban area, provinces, 2014 to 2023

Table 3 Re-contact with police over a nine-year follow-up period, by number of re-contacts, cohort offence type and rural or urban area, provinces, 2014 to 2023
Table summary
The information is grouped by Cohort offence type (appearing as row headers), No re-contact, Re-contact, One re-contact, Two to five re-contacts, Six to ten re-contacts and More than ten re-contacts, calculated using number, percent, number, percent, number, percent, number, percent, number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Cohort offence type No re-contact Re-contact
One re-contact Two to five re-contacts Six to ten re-contacts More than ten re-contacts
number percent number percent number percent number percent number percent
Note 1

Geographical region is based on the residential address of the accused at the time of the cohort (i.e., initial) contact in 2014. When address information for the accused person was missing or unknown, the address of the responding police service was used. It is possible that an accused person may have lived in both rural and urban areas over the nine-year follow-up period.

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Note 2

Includes sexual assault (levels 1, 2 and 3), sexual offences against children (e.g., luring, invitation to sexual touching) and other sexual offences (e.g., sexual exploitation, non-consensual distribution of intimate images).

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Note 3

Includes assault (levels, 1, 2 and 3), unlawfully causing bodily harm, criminal negligence causing bodily harm and other assaults. Also includes firearm-specific offences (e.g., discharging a firearm with intent, use of a firearm in the commission of an offence, pointing a firearm).

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Note 4

Includes shoplifting over $5,000.

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Note 5

Includes shoplifting $5,000 and under.

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Note: Reflects unique people, according to the number of times they came into contact with police for a criminal offence between 2014 and 2023, excluding the cohort (i.e., initial) offence. Urban areas are inside a census metropolitan area (CMA) or census agglomeration (CA) and rural areas are outside of CMAs and CAs. A CMA or a CA is comprised of one or more adjacent municipalities centred on a population centre (known as the core). A CMA must have a total population of at least 100,000, of which 50,000 or more must live in the core. A CA must have a core population of at least 10,000. To be included in the CMA or CA, adjacent municipalities must have a high degree of integration with the core, as measured by commuting flows derived from census data. A CMA or CA may have more than one police service. Excludes data from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s Canadian Police Centre for Missing and Exploited Children, and the Canadian Forces Military Police Group. Police-reported statistics may be affected by differences in the way police services deal with offences. In some instances, police or municipalities might choose to deal with some offences using municipal bylaws or provincial provisions rather than Criminal Code provisions. Accused persons may have had additional contacts with police in other years, or may have come into contact with police for another reason (e.g., as a victim of crime, or related to an incident for which they were not formally identified as an accused person). Counts are based on the most serious violation in the incident. One incident may involve multiple violations. The initial contact with police in 2014 must have been in the provinces, but any re-contact was not limited to the provinces. Percentages may not total 100% due to rounding.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
RuralTable 3 Note 1  
Violent crime  
Sexual offences Table 3 Note 2 1,382 48 486 17 565 20 236 8 222 8
Assaults and firearm-specific offences Table 3 Note 3 10,198 35 4,141 14 6,612 23 3,126 11 4,851 17
Robbery 82 18 42 9 105 23 64 14 159 35
Uttering threats 2,755 39 1,102 15 1,633 23 743 10 895 13
Other violent offences 1,786 41 740 17 1,047 24 373 9 387 9
Property crime  
Breaking and entering 1,092 27 515 13 957 24 522 13 986 24
Motor vehicle theft 387 24 201 12 364 22 237 15 442 27
Mischief 5,163 29 2,222 12 3,934 22 2,322 13 4,445 25
Theft over $5,000 (non-motor vehicle) Table 3 Note 4 159 48 43 13 56 17 34 10 42 13
Theft of $5,000 or under (non-motor vehicle) Table 3 Note 5 3,701 41 1,162 13 1,697 19 875 10 1,535 17
Other property offences 1,493 38 489 13 790 20 404 10 734 19
Other Criminal Code offences  
Disturb the peace 3,400 31 1,394 13 2,366 22 1,282 12 2,516 23
Administration of justice violations 2,282 20 1,340 12 2,643 23 1,697 15 3,507 31
Other Criminal Code offences 2,192 43 688 13 1,046 20 468 9 714 14
Urban Table 3 Note 1  
Violent crime  
Sexual offences Table 3 Note 2 4,401 56 1,325 17 1,366 17 418 5 417 5
Assaults and firearm-specific offences Table 3 Note 3 38,333 46 12,884 15 17,227 20 6,988 8 8,647 10
Robbery 1,049 21 643 13 1,360 27 808 16 1,140 23
Uttering threats 8,056 44 2,791 15 3,988 22 1,603 9 2,025 11
Other violent offences 6,541 47 2,289 16 3,119 22 1,033 7 1,044 7
Property crime  
Breaking and entering 2,703 29 1,145 12 2,078 22 1,249 13 2,165 23
Motor vehicle theft 927 30 380 12 658 21 369 12 795 25
Mischief 9,685 44 3,186 15 4,322 20 1,871 9 2,885 13
Theft over $5,000 (non-motor vehicle) Table 3 Note 4 578 50 149 13 202 18 91 8 127 11
Theft of $5,000 or under (non-motor vehicle) Table 3 Note 5 33,114 51 8,623 13 10,794 16 4,849 7 8,083 12
Other property offences 8,378 40 2,942 14 4,244 20 2,119 10 3,272 16
Other Criminal Code offences  
Disturb the peace 8,079 45 2,568 14 3,503 19 1,455 8 2,519 14
Administration of justice violations 10,117 24 5,606 13 10,383 25 5,887 14 9,829 24
Other Criminal Code offences 7,740 45 2,397 14 3,350 19 1,468 9 2,266 13
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