NCJ Number
153103
Date Published
1994
Length
198 pages
Annotation
This report presents Canadian crime statistics for 1993, based on the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
Abstract
The first chapter discusses the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey and data compilation and verification procedures, followed by an overview of reported crime in Canada and a chapter discussing revised UCR survey highlights. In 1993, police in Canada reported 3.04 million Federal statute criminal incidents, representing a decline of 5 percent from 1992 figures. Ninety-seven percent of the incidents were covered under the Criminal Code (10 percent violent, 53 percent property offenses, 7 percent traffic offenses, and 27 percent other Criminal Code violations) and 3 percent were drug offenses and other Federal statute violations. While violent crime represented 11 percent of reported incidents in 1992, homicides and attempted murders accounted for only 1 percent of violent crime. Of the 126,932 youths charged in Criminal Code incidents in 1993, 17 percent were charged with violent crimes. While males accounted for the vast majority of those arrested for Criminal Code crimes, the proportion of females charged in such incidents rose from 15 percent in 1978 to 19 percent in 1993. 5 tables, 38 figures, 20 notes, and 6 appendixes