Chart 16
Cases completed in adult court by sex of the accused, 10 jurisdictions, 2000/2001 to 2014/2015

Chart 16 Cases completed in adult court by sex of the accused, 10 jurisdictions, 2000/2001 to 2014/2015

Data table for Chart 16
CasesData table Note 1 completed in adult court by sex of the accusedData table Note 2, 10 jurisdictions,Data table Note 3 2000/2001 to 2014/2015
Table summary
This table displays the results of Cases completed in adult court by sex of the accused. The information is grouped by Years (appearing as row headers), Male accused and Female accused, calculated using number units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Years Male accused Female accused
number
2000/2001 296,161 54,831
2001/2002 312,177 57,673
2002/2003 312,106 59,418
2003/2004 300,861 57,678
2004/2005 299,754 59,500
2005/2006 295,053 59,596
2006/2007 294,138 60,661
2007/2008 302,755 63,485
2008/2009 304,939 65,140
2009/2010 311,089 69,777
2010/2011 307,941 72,358
2011/2012 295,475 69,588
2012/2013 288,803 69,254
2013/2014 280,420 67,322
2014/2015 240,525 59,633
Note 1

A case is one or more charges against an accused person or company, which were processed by the courts at the same time (date of offence, date of initiation, date of first appearance, or date of decision), and received a final decision. The definition attempts to reflect court processing. All data have been processed using this case definition. The case definition changed for the 2006/2007 release of data. The former definition (used in Statistics Canada releases prior to October 2007) combined all charges against the same person disposed of in court on the same day into a case. Consequently, comparisons should not be made with data tables and reports released before that time.

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Note 2

Data for the province of Manitoba are excluded as information on the sex of the accused is not available as of 2005/2006.

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Note 3

The ten jurisdictions are: Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia and Yukon. These ten provinces and territories have reported to the adult component of the Integrated Criminal Court Survey (ICCS) since 2000/2001. Information from superior courts in Prince Edward Island, Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan as well as municipal courts in Quebec was not available for extraction from their electronic reporting systems and was therefore not reported to the survey.

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Notes: This product is based on data from the adult component of the Integrated Criminal Court Survey (ICCS). Data contained in this chart represent the adult criminal court portion of the survey, namely, individuals who were 18 years of age or older at the time of the offence. Includes cases where the age of the accused is unknown. Data are based on a fiscal year (April 1 through March 31). Cases are counted in the fiscal year in which they are completed. Every year, the Integrated Criminal Court Survey (ICCS) database is considered final at the end of March for the production of court statistics for the previous fiscal year. However, these counts do not include cases pending an outcome at the end of the reference period. If an outcome is reached in the next fiscal year, these cases are included in the completed case counts for that fiscal year. However, cases that are inactive for one year are deemed complete and the originally published counts for the previous fiscal year are updated and reported in the next fiscal year's data release. Historically, updates to a previous year's counts have resulted in an increase of approximately 2%.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Integrated Criminal Court Survey, 2000/2001 to 2014/2015.
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