Canadian Crime Statistics
These publications provide a statistical summary of police-reported crime in Canada and the provinces/territories back to 1962.
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Adult Correctional Services
The tables included in these documents pertain to services provided by governmental agencies responsible for adult correction in each of the provincial, territorial and federal sectors.
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Adult Criminal Court Data and Statistics
These publications provide a statistical summary of adult criminal court statistics.
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Youth Custody and Community Services
These publications provide corrections-based data on youth admissions to custodial facilties and to probation as well as the daily average number of young offenders in custody and on probation across the country.
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Youth Court Data and Statistics
The objective of the Youth Court Survey (YCS) is to produce a national database of statistical information on charges, cases and persons involving accused who are aged 12 to 17 years (up to the 18th birthday) at the time of the offence. This survey excludes appeals, reviews, provincial statutes and municipal by-law infractions.
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Problem Behaviour and Delinquency in Children and Youth
Includes the highlights of a survey of problem behaviour and delinquency in children and youth.
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Homicide in Canada
These publications provide a statistical summary of homicide in Canada and the provinces/territories.
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Information Related to Family and Spousal Violence
This section includes documents on Canada's shelters for abused women, children witnessing family violence and spousal violence after marital separation.
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Illicit Drugs and Crime in Canada
This document focuses principally on criminal drug offences reported by Canadian police services. It sketches a statistical profile of drug crimes and drug offenders, while examining the various types of offences and drugs involved. The report also examines national trends as well as provincial/territorial comparisons. Other information sources are used to describe the attitudes of Canadaians toward the drug problem and the reaction of the courts to those appearing on drug charges.
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Impaired Driving in Canada - 1998
In this report, data on police enforcement practices are examined as well as data on fatally-injured drivers, trends in alcohol consumption, and changes in the demographic composition of the Canadian population. Another issue addressed in this report is whether a greater proportion of accused persons are clogging the courts by contesting imparied driving charges.
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Criminal Harassment
Section 264 of the Criminal Code defines criminal harassment as repeatedly following another person from place to place or repeatedly attempting to contact the person. This report outlines the characteristics of criminal harassment incidents as well as the characteristics of the accused and victim for 1999, and identifies trends over the past five years. This report also updates a similar 1996 report.
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Hate Crime Study: Summary Results of Consultations
The purpose of the Hate Crimes Study was to enhance the understanding of hate crime and to assess the feasibility of developing a survey to collect police-reported hate crime statistics in Canada.
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Criminal Code Offences Descriptions
The Look-Up Table of Selected Criminal Code Offences and Other Federal Offences, June 1997 and the Federal Offences/Describes the Records Found on the File are included on this page.
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Justice System Information and Publications
This is a collection of information includes an overview of criminal justice indicators, a directory of justice information, a historical list of publications, a compendium of Canadian Integrated and multi-disciplinary justice initiatives, justice spending in Canada and crime comparisons between Canada and the United States.
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