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Cases in youth court

Canada Total all decisions
Youth cases heard 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002
  number of cases
Total cases 92,867 87,600 87,617 85,640 84,592
Criminal Code total (without traffic) 76,297 70,067 69,791 67,819 66,984
Crimes against the person 23,204 22,432 22,674 22,510 22,462
  Homicide 37 51 38 31 44
  Attempted murder 64 46 46 47 43
  Robbery 3,327 3,032 2,714 2,789 2,932
  Sexual assault 1,236 1,126 1,146 1,103 1,115
  Other sexual offences 565 527 615 595 566
  Major assaults 4,910 4,748 4,791 4,948 4,935
  Common assaults 9,671 9,019 9,229 8,708 8,968
  Uttering threats 2,770 3,150 3,360 3,636 3,244
  Criminal harassment 151 262 240 202 208
  Other crimes against persons 473 471 495 451 407
Crimes against property 40,148 35,518 34,694 33,086 32,465
  Theft 15,234 13,667 13,611 13,103 12,913
  Breaking and entering 11,021 9,088 8,223 7,522 7,415
  Fraud 1,784 1,730 1,653 1,578 1,411
  Mischief 4,393 3,994 4,213 4,128 4,247
  Possess stolen property 7,215 6,583 6,452 6,243 6,039
  Other property crimes 501 456 542 512 440
Administration of justice 8,154 7,551 7,917 7,698 7,790
Other Criminal Code 4,791 4,566 4,506 4,525 4,267
Criminal Code traffic 1,240 1,238 1,166 1,211 1,225
  Impaired driving 793 800 697 669 658
  Other Criminal Code traffic offences 447 438 469 542 567
Other federal statutes 15,330 16,295 16,660 16,610 16,383
  Drug possession 2,725 3,107 3,773 4,058 4,137
  Drug trafficking 1,575 1,849 1,994 2,000 1,770
 Young Offenders Act 10,916 11,217 10,766 10,414 10,325
  Residual federal statutes 114 122 127 138 151
Source: Statistics Canada, CANSIM, table 252-0030 and Catalogue no. 63-002-XIE.
Last modified: 2004-03-12.

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