Table 11
Cases completed in youth court and adult court, by type of offence and sex of the accused, Canada, 2014/2015

Table 11
Cases completed in youth court and adult court, by type of offence and sex of the accused, Canada, 2014/2015
Table summary
This table displays the results of Cases completed in youth court and adult court. The information is grouped by Type of offence (appearing as row headers), Youth court, Adult court, Total, Females, Males, Total Youth and Total adults, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offenceTable 11 Note 1 Youth court Adult court Total
Females Males Total Youth Females Males Total adults
numberTable 11 Note 2 percent number percent number numberTable 11 Note 2 percent number percent number number
Violent offences 2,011 22.6 6,885 77.4 8,896 12,783 18.0 58,059 82.0 70,842 79,738
Homicide 2 10.5 17 89.5 19 29 13.5 186 86.5 215 234
Attempted murder 4 21.1 15 78.9 19 14 10.6 118 89.4 132 151
Robbery 118 9.0 1,199 91.0 1,317 313 11.4 2,434 88.6 2,747 4,064
Sexual assault 17 3.0 555 97.0 572 50 2.1 2,316 97.9 2,366 2,938
Other sexual offencesTable 11 Note 2 25 4.1 584 95.9 609 89 3.0 2,844 97.0 2,933 3,542
Major assaultTable 11 Note 3 468 25.4 1,377 74.6 1,845 3,621 22.9 12,189 77.1 15,810 17,655
Common assault 918 36.5 1,595 63.5 2,513 6,285 22.8 21,336 77.2 27,621 30,134
Uttering threats 379 23.2 1,255 76.8 1,634 1,684 12.2 12,160 87.8 13,844 15,478
Criminal harassment 53 31.2 117 68.8 170 356 13.1 2,364 86.9 2,720 2,890
Other crimes against persons 27 13.6 171 86.4 198 342 13.9 2,112 86.1 2,454 2,652
Property offences 2,248 23.1 7,473 76.9 9,721 20,172 28.1 51,678 71.9 71,850 81,571
TheftTable 11 Note 4 1,066 31.9 2,277 68.1 3,343 11,144 34.7 20,936 65.3 32,080 35,423
Break-and-enter 268 12.3 1,914 87.7 2,182 1,010 12.8 6,871 87.2 7,881 10,063
Fraud 106 31.0 236 69.0 342 3,260 33.2 6,556 66.8 9,816 10,158
Mischief 372 19.6 1,525 80.4 1,897 1,986 17.6 9,277 82.4 11,263 13,160
Possess stolen property 419 24.4 1,298 75.6 1,717 2,609 27.4 6,906 72.6 9,515 11,232
Other property offences 17 7.1 223 92.9 240 163 12.6 1,132 87.4 1,295 1,535
Offences relating to the administration of justice 900 29.2 2,183 70.8 3,083 12,267 18.2 55,045 81.8 67,312 70,395
Failure to appear 73 37.4 122 62.6 195 881 24.0 2,795 76.0 3,676 3,871
Breach of probation 10 22.2 35 77.8 45 4,326 16.4 21,973 83.6 26,299 26,344
Unlawfully at large 22 10.7 184 89.3 206 224 9.8 2,058 90.2 2,282 2,488
Failure to comply with order 595 29.8 1,404 70.2 1,999 5,280 18.6 23,053 81.4 28,333 30,332
Other offences relating to the administration of justice 200 31.3 438 68.7 638 1,556 23.1 5,166 76.9 6,722 7,360
Other Criminal Code offences 211 11.9 1,561 88.1 1,772 1,693 13.5 10,872 86.5 12,565 14,337
Weapons 121 10.4 1,048 89.6 1,169 800 10.1 7,112 89.9 7,912 9,081
Prostitution 7 43.8 9 56.3 16 58 17.4 275 82.6 333 349
Disturbing the peace 17 32.1 36 67.9 53 175 16.9 858 83.1 1,033 1,086
Residual Criminal Code offences 66 12.4 468 87.6 534 660 20.1 2,627 79.9 3,287 3,821
Criminal Code (excluding traffic) 5,370 22.9 18,102 77.1 23,472 46,915 21.1 175,654 78.9 222,569 246,041
Criminal Code traffic offences 94 19.3 394 80.7 488 6,954 17.7 32,351 82.3 39,305 39,793
Impaired driving 57 26.0 162 74.0 219 5,862 19.0 24,953 81.0 30,815 31,034
Other Criminal Code traffic offences 37 13.8 232 86.2 269 1,092 12.9 7,398 87.1 8,490 8,759
Total Criminal Code offences 5,464 22.8 18,496 77.2 23,960 53,869 20.6 208,005 79.4 261,874 285,834
Other federal statutes offencesTable 11 Note 5 1,151 20.7 4,402 79.3 5,553 6,216 15.3 34,470 84.7 40,686 46,239
Drug possession 273 16.0 1,435 84.0 1,708 1,954 15.2 10,879 84.8 12,833 14,541
Other drug offencesTable 11 Note 6 108 13.1 714 86.9 822 1,680 20.5 6,499 79.5 8,179 9,001
Youth Criminal Justice Act 733 25.6 2,126 74.4 2,859 136 19.1 577 80.9 713 3,572
Residual federal statutes offences 37 22.6 127 77.4 164 2,446 12.9 16,515 87.1 18,961 19,125
Total offences 6,615 22.4 22,898 77.6 29,513 60,085 19.9 242,475 80.1 302,560 332,073
Note 1

The primary unit of analysis is the case. It combines all charges against the same person having one or more key overlapping dates (date of offence, date of initiation, date of first appearance, date of decision, date of sentencing) into a single case. Cases that involve more than one charge are represented by the most serious offence.

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Note 2

Includes sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching, child pornography, luring a child via a computer, sexual exploitation, and other offences.

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Note 3

Includes assault with a weapon (level 2), aggravated assault (level 3), and other offences.

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Note 4

Includes theft over $5,000, theft $5,000 or under, as well as motor vehicle theft.

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Note 5

Federal statutes offences refer to offences against Canadian federal statutes, such as the Customs Act, the Employment Insurance Act, the Firearms Act, the Food and Drugs Act (FDA), the Income Tax Act, and the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA).

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Note 6

Includes drug trafficking, production, importing and exporting.

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Notes: Includes information on accused persons aged 12 and over at the time of the offence. Excludes cases in which the sex of the accused was unknown and cases in which the accused is a company. Includes cases where the age of the accused is unknown. A case is one or more charges against an accused person or company that were processed by the courts at the same time and received a final disposition. Information on the sex of the accused is not available from Manitoba as of 2005/2006.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Integrated Criminal Court Survey, 2014/2015.
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