Table 7
Persons accused of police-reported mass casualty events and violent crime, by gender and age group, Canada, 2010 to 2024

Table 7
Persons accused of police-reported mass casualty events and violent crime, by gender and age group, Canada, 2010 to 2024 Table summary
The information is grouped by Gender and age group (appearing as row headers), Mass casualty events, Violent crime4, Total, Level 11, Level 22 and Level 33, calculated using number, average annual rate5, number, average annual rate5, number, average annual rate5, number, average annual rate5, number and average annual rate5 units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Gender and age group Mass casualty events Violent crime Table 7 Note 4
Total Level 1 Table 7 Note 1 Level 2 Table 7 Note 2 Level 3 Table 7 Note 3
number average annual rate Table 7 Note 5 number average annual rate Table 7 Note 5 number average annual rate Table 7 Note 5 number average annual rate Table 7 Note 5 number average annual rate Table 7 Note 5
Note 1

Includes violent incidents where four or more victims sustained minor physical injury.

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Note 2

Includes violent incidents where four or more victims sustained physical injury and one to three victims sustained major physical injury or died.

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Note 3

Includes violent incidents where four or more victims sustained major physical injury or died.

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Note 4

Includes mass casualty events. To allow for comparison with mass casualty events, incidents of violent crime are limited to those with victim records.

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Note 5

This rate is the average of the annual rates from 2010 to 2024.

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Note 6

Includes accused persons whose gender was coded as unknown.

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Note: Mass casualty events refer to violent incidents where four or more victims sustained physical injury or died. For information about level of injury, see Text box 1. Excludes criminal negligence causing bodily harm or death. The option for police to code accused persons as non-binary in the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Survey was implemented in 2018. Given that small counts of accused persons identified as “non-binary” may exist, the UCR Survey aggregate data available to the public have been recoded to assign these counts to either “men and boys” or “women and girls,” in order to ensure the protection of confidentiality and privacy. Accused persons identified as non-binary have been assigned to either men and boys or women and girls based on the regional distribution of accused persons’ gender. Includes accused persons aged 12 and older as those younger than 12 years cannot be held criminally responsible. Accused persons older than 110 years were coded as unknown due to possible instances of miscoding of unknown age within this age category. Excludes accused persons whose age was coded as unknown. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Populations are based on July 1 estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography. Based on the Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, Trend Database, which, as of 2009, includes data for 99% of the population in Canada.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (Trend Database).
Men and boys  
12 to 17 years 1,236 6.6 968 5.2 224 1.2 44 0.23 344,634 1,839
18 to 24 years 1,972 7.8 1,429 5.6 443 1.7 100 0.39 538,464 2,110
25 to 34 years 1,508 3.9 1,132 2.9 301 0.8 75 0.19 779,572 2,009
35 years and older 1,021 0.7 839 0.5 135 0.1 47 0.03 1,224,912 800
Total 5,737 2.1 4,368 1.6 1,103 0.4 266 0.10 2,887,582 1,064
Women and girls  
12 to 17 years 396 2.2 348 2.0 38 0.2 10 0.05 133,221 750
18 to 24 years 510 2.1 445 1.9 59 0.2 6 0.02 170,634 713
25 to 34 years 436 1.1 382 1.0 41 0.1 13 0.04 230,078 610
35 years and older 319 0.2 288 0.2 25 0.0 6 0.00 309,190 190
Total 1,661 0.6 1,463 0.5 163 0.1 35 0.01 843,123 306
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12 to 17 years 1,632 4.5 1,316 3.6 262 0.7 54 0.15 478,858 1,312
18 to 24 years 2,485 5.0 1,877 3.8 502 1.0 106 0.21 710,201 1,436
25 to 34 years 1,944 2.5 1,514 2.0 342 0.4 88 0.11 1,010,965 1,322
35 years and older 1,341 0.4 1,128 0.4 160 0.1 53 0.02 1,536,375 487
Total 7,402 1.4 5,835 1.1 1,266 0.2 301 0.06 3,736,399 684
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