Table 1
Number and rate of youth and adults accused by police, by sex, reported to a subset of police services, 2005
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Offence type | Total accused | Female accused | Male accused | ||||||
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Total | Total | Youth | Adult | Total | Total | Youth | Adult | ||
number | number | rate | number | rate | |||||
Total accused | 517,254 | 109,055 | 1,080 | 3,182 | 885 | 408,199 | 4,193 | 8,613 | 3,743 |
Total - violations against the person | 167,917 | 30,747 | 304 | 879 | 251 | 137,170 | 1,409 | 2,449 | 1,303 |
Homicide | 400 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 365 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
Attempted murder | 544 | 68 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 476 | 5 | 3 | 5 |
Robbery | 11,953 | 1,264 | 13 | 57 | 8 | 10,689 | 110 | 370 | 83 |
Sexual assaults | 7,429 | 182 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 7,247 | 74 | 152 | 67 |
Other sexual offences | 732 | 22 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 710 | 7 | 17 | 6 |
Major assaults | 33,350 | 6,448 | 64 | 144 | 56 | 26,902 | 276 | 509 | 253 |
Common assault (level 1) | 73,450 | 15,670 | 155 | 483 | 125 | 57,780 | 594 | 950 | 557 |
Uttering threats | 26,478 | 4,753 | 47 | 146 | 38 | 21,725 | 223 | 343 | 211 |
Criminal harassment | 9,243 | 1,823 | 18 | 36 | 16 | 7,420 | 76 | 55 | 78 |
Other crimes against the person1 | 4,338 | 482 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 3,856 | 40 | 46 | 39 |
Total - violations against property | 212,435 | 51,509 | 510 | 1,834 | 387 | 160,926 | 1,653 | 4,664 | 1,346 |
Motor vehicle theft | 11,177 | 1,252 | 12 | 61 | 8 | 9,925 | 102 | 352 | 77 |
Other theft | 87,894 | 29,409 | 291 | 1,215 | 205 | 58,485 | 601 | 1,640 | 495 |
Break and enter | 29,084 | 2,522 | 25 | 94 | 19 | 26,562 | 273 | 795 | 220 |
Fraud | 28,125 | 8,435 | 84 | 71 | 85 | 19,690 | 202 | 145 | 208 |
Mischief | 27,538 | 3,586 | 36 | 167 | 23 | 23,952 | 246 | 1,138 | 155 |
Possession of stolen property | 27,395 | 6,163 | 61 | 218 | 46 | 21,232 | 218 | 524 | 187 |
Arson | 1,222 | 142 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 1,080 | 11 | 71 | 5 |
Total - violations against the administration of justice | 98,562 | 18,836 | 186 | 342 | 172 | 79,726 | 819 | 943 | 806 |
Failure to appear | 16,118 | 4,037 | 40 | 70 | 37 | 12,081 | 124 | 117 | 125 |
Breach of probation | 22,914 | 3,726 | 37 | 30 | 38 | 19,188 | 197 | 133 | 204 |
Unlawfully at large | 3,168 | 345 | 3 | 10 | 3 | 2,823 | 29 | 58 | 26 |
Bail violations | 53,331 | 9,903 | 98 | 213 | 87 | 43,428 | 446 | 603 | 430 |
Other administration of justice | 3,031 | 825 | 8 | 18 | 7 | 2,206 | 23 | 34 | 22 |
Total - other Criminal Code violations | 38,340 | 7,963 | 79 | 128 | 74 | 30,377 | 312 | 557 | 287 |
Weapons | 9,648 | 1,018 | 10 | 19 | 9 | 8,630 | 89 | 242 | 73 |
Prostitution | 3,863 | 1,880 | 19 | 5 | 20 | 1,983 | 20 | 2 | 22 |
Disturbing the peace | 7,421 | 1,536 | 15 | 38 | 13 | 5,885 | 60 | 83 | 58 |
Counterfeiting currency | 1,204 | 226 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 978 | 10 | 22 | 9 |
Threatening/harassing phone calls | 3,645 | 1,400 | 14 | 21 | 13 | 2,245 | 23 | 25 | 23 |
Residual Criminal Code | 12,559 | 1,903 | 19 | 40 | 17 | 10,656 | 109 | 183 | 102 |
0 true zero or a value rounded to zero
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR2) Survey. |
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