{
  "mode": "count",
  "generated": "2026-08-31",
  "categories": [
    {
      "group_key": "T",
      "violation_code": "0",
      "label": "All crime",
      "slug": "all-crime",
      "blurb": "Every offence police recorded, including federal statutes and traffic.",
      "sort_order": 1,
      "note": "Total of all police-reported violations, including federal statutes and traffic.",
      "court_member": "1",
      "court_note": "Court figures cover all offences, including traffic and federal statutes."
    },
    {
      "group_key": "A",
      "violation_code": "130",
      "label": "Violence against children",
      "slug": "children",
      "blurb": "Offences in the Criminal Code that apply only where the victim is a child.",
      "sort_order": 2,
      "note": "Criminal Code violations specific to child victims.",
      "court_member": null,
      "court_note": "The court survey has no category for offences against children specifically, and it covers adults accused only, so no court figures are shown here."
    },
    {
      "group_key": "B",
      "violation_code": null,
      "label": "Sexual offences, all ages",
      "slug": "sexual-offences",
      "blurb": "Sexual offences where the law does not specify the age of the victim, plus child sexual abuse material.",
      "sort_order": 3,
      "note": "No official total exists for this grouping; the figure shown is the sum of the offences listed.",
      "court_member": null,
      "court_note": "The court survey groups sexual assault separately from other sexual offences and does not match this grouping, so no court figures are shown here."
    },
    {
      "group_key": "C",
      "violation_code": "100",
      "label": "Violence",
      "slug": "violence",
      "blurb": "Offences against a person, from uttering threats through to homicide.",
      "sort_order": 4,
      "note": "Total violent Criminal Code violations.",
      "court_member": "4",
      "court_note": "Court figures use the group crimes against the person, which is close to but not identical with the police category above."
    },
    {
      "group_key": "E",
      "violation_code": "200",
      "label": "Property",
      "slug": "property",
      "blurb": "Offences against property: break and enter, theft, shoplifting, mischief.",
      "sort_order": 5,
      "note": "Total property crime violations.",
      "court_member": "15",
      "court_note": "Court figures use the group crimes against property."
    },
    {
      "group_key": "F",
      "violation_code": null,
      "label": "Financial and white collar",
      "slug": "white-collar",
      "blurb": "Fraud and the financial offences police handle as crimes.",
      "sort_order": 6,
      "note": "No official total exists for this grouping; the figure shown is the sum of the offences listed.",
      "court_member": null,
      "court_note": "The court survey counts fraud but has no wider white collar grouping, so no court figures are shown here."
    },
    {
      "group_key": "G",
      "violation_code": "401",
      "label": "Drugs",
      "slug": "drugs",
      "blurb": "Possession, trafficking, and production under the drug laws.",
      "sort_order": 7,
      "note": "Total drug violations under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.",
      "court_member": "37",
      "court_note": "Court figures cover drug possession only. Trafficking and production are counted in a separate group the police category does not match."
    },
    {
      "group_key": "H",
      "violation_code": "330",
      "label": "Administration of justice",
      "slug": "justice-system",
      "blurb": "Offences against the court process itself, such as breaching probation.",
      "sort_order": 8,
      "note": "Total administration of justice violations.",
      "court_member": "22",
      "court_note": "Court figures use the group administration of justice."
    }
  ],
  "current": {
    "group_key": "F",
    "violation_code": null,
    "label": "Financial and white collar",
    "slug": "white-collar",
    "blurb": "Fraud and the financial offences police handle as crimes.",
    "sort_order": 6,
    "note": "No official total exists for this grouping; the figure shown is the sum of the offences listed.",
    "court_member": null,
    "court_note": "The court survey counts fraud but has no wider white collar grouping, so no court figures are shown here.",
    "derived": true,
    "anchorLabel": null
  },
  "year": 2025,
  "years": [
    1998,
    1999,
    2000,
    2001,
    2002,
    2003,
    2004,
    2005,
    2006,
    2007,
    2008,
    2009,
    2010,
    2011,
    2012,
    2013,
    2014,
    2015,
    2016,
    2017,
    2018,
    2019,
    2020,
    2021,
    2022,
    2023,
    2024,
    2025
  ],
  "series": {
    "persons_charged": {
      "1998": 619,
      "1999": 470,
      "2000": 381,
      "2001": 373,
      "2002": 317,
      "2003": 380,
      "2004": 373,
      "2005": 380,
      "2006": 296,
      "2007": 338,
      "2008": 324,
      "2009": 297,
      "2010": 270,
      "2011": 304,
      "2012": 261,
      "2013": 281,
      "2014": 339,
      "2015": 256,
      "2016": 409,
      "2017": 329,
      "2018": 419,
      "2019": 458,
      "2020": 342,
      "2021": 274,
      "2022": 274,
      "2023": 286,
      "2024": 274,
      "2025": 206
    },
    "incidents": {
      "1998": 1756,
      "1999": 1421,
      "2000": 1366,
      "2001": 1428,
      "2002": 1219,
      "2003": 1193,
      "2004": 1462,
      "2005": 1312,
      "2006": 1223,
      "2007": 1514,
      "2008": 1479,
      "2009": 1433,
      "2010": 1281,
      "2011": 1206,
      "2012": 1110,
      "2013": 1235,
      "2014": 1159,
      "2015": 1225,
      "2016": 1527,
      "2017": 1384,
      "2018": 1718,
      "2019": 1762,
      "2020": 1736,
      "2021": 1767,
      "2022": 1861,
      "2023": 2420,
      "2024": 2494,
      "2025": 2173
    },
    "cleared_by_charge": {
      "1998": 884,
      "1999": 757,
      "2000": 580,
      "2001": 567,
      "2002": 439,
      "2003": 449,
      "2004": 424,
      "2005": 411,
      "2006": 301,
      "2007": 359,
      "2008": 327,
      "2009": 299,
      "2010": 275,
      "2011": 261,
      "2012": 237,
      "2013": 272,
      "2014": 373,
      "2015": 237,
      "2016": 372,
      "2017": 311,
      "2018": 402,
      "2019": 398,
      "2020": 301,
      "2021": 230,
      "2022": 233,
      "2023": 252,
      "2024": 230,
      "2025": 178
    },
    "unfounded": {
      "2017": 132,
      "2018": 139,
      "2019": 129,
      "2020": 155,
      "2021": 145,
      "2022": 131,
      "2023": 126,
      "2024": 153,
      "2025": 158
    },
    "rate_per_100_000_population": {
      "1998": 325.23,
      "1999": 266.39,
      "2000": 258.69,
      "2001": 273.56,
      "2002": 234.62999999999997,
      "2003": 230.06999999999996,
      "2004": 282.53000000000003,
      "2005": 255.07,
      "2006": 239.53,
      "2007": 297.41999999999996,
      "2008": 289.12,
      "2009": 277.33000000000004,
      "2010": 245.40999999999997,
      "2011": 229.70999999999998,
      "2012": 210.88999999999996,
      "2013": 234.3,
      "2014": 219.44,
      "2015": 231.95999999999998,
      "2016": 288.34999999999997,
      "2017": 261.27,
      "2018": 325.13999999999993,
      "2019": 333.95,
      "2020": 329.49,
      "2021": 335.26,
      "2022": 350.28000000000003,
      "2023": 449.16999999999996,
      "2024": 456.05000000000007,
      "2025": 395.1700000000001
    },
    "total_cleared": {
      "1998": 1114,
      "1999": 909,
      "2000": 662,
      "2001": 682,
      "2002": 556,
      "2003": 542,
      "2004": 524,
      "2005": 564,
      "2006": 423,
      "2007": 508,
      "2008": 454,
      "2009": 472,
      "2010": 410,
      "2011": 376,
      "2012": 344,
      "2013": 360,
      "2014": 457,
      "2015": 305,
      "2016": 458,
      "2017": 401,
      "2018": 466,
      "2019": 448,
      "2020": 342,
      "2021": 266,
      "2022": 299,
      "2023": 362,
      "2024": 277,
      "2025": 232
    },
    "rate_total_persons_charged_per_100_000_p": {
      "1998": 133.42,
      "1999": 102.12,
      "2000": 83.34,
      "2001": 82.18999999999998,
      "2002": 69.88,
      "2003": 83.61,
      "2004": 82.02,
      "2005": 83.87,
      "2006": 65.68,
      "2007": 75.16,
      "2008": 71.67,
      "2009": 65.03999999999999,
      "2010": 58.5,
      "2011": 65.47,
      "2012": 55.98,
      "2013": 60.13,
      "2014": 72.35,
      "2015": 54.61,
      "2016": 86.92999999999999,
      "2017": 69.81,
      "2018": 88.92,
      "2019": 97.09,
      "2020": 72.38999999999999,
      "2021": 57.830000000000005,
      "2022": 57.25,
      "2023": 58.8,
      "2024": 55.43,
      "2025": 41.37
    },
    "percent_unfounded": {
      "2017": 52.879999999999995,
      "2018": 99.76,
      "2019": 137.95000000000002,
      "2020": 140.69,
      "2021": 97.27999999999999,
      "2022": 82.02000000000001,
      "2023": 110.8,
      "2024": 31.05,
      "2025": 96.88
    }
  },
  "figures": {
    "incidents": 2173,
    "cleared": 178,
    "charged": 206,
    "unfounded": 158,
    "rateIncidents": 395.1700000000001,
    "ratePersonsCharged": 41.37,
    "totalCleared": 232,
    "clearedOtherwise": null,
    "percentUnfounded": 96.88
  },
  "offence": null,
  "court": null,
  "components": [
    {
      "label": "Fraud",
      "code": "2160",
      "value": 1991
    },
    {
      "label": "Identity fraud",
      "code": "2166",
      "value": 90
    },
    {
      "label": "Excise Act",
      "code": "6400",
      "value": 59
    },
    {
      "label": "Identity theft",
      "code": "2165",
      "value": 21
    },
    {
      "label": "Fraudulent transactions relating to contracts and trade (Part X Criminal Code)",
      "code": "3790",
      "value": 4
    },
    {
      "label": "Proceeds of crime (Part XII.2 Criminal Code)",
      "code": "3825",
      "value": 4
    },
    {
      "label": "Counterfeiting",
      "code": "3420",
      "value": 3
    },
    {
      "label": "Customs Act",
      "code": "6300",
      "value": 1
    }
  ],
  "subtotals": [],
  "notes": [
    {
      "scope_key": "global",
      "note_text": "These figures come from the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, a census of crimes reported to and founded by police. They count what police recorded, not everything that happened. Self-reported victimization surveys consistently find most crime is never reported to police; for sexual assault the reported share was about 6 percent in 2019.",
      "source": "Statistics Canada, UCR Survey; General Social Survey on Victimization 2019"
    },
    {
      "scope_key": "global",
      "note_text": "Incidents, charges, and court outcomes come from two separate surveys (UCR and the Integrated Criminal Court Survey) that cannot be linked case by case. Read the stages as four measurements of the same system in the same year, not as one group of cases followed from report to verdict.",
      "source": "Statistics Canada"
    },
    {
      "scope_key": "global",
      "note_text": "In January 2018 the definition of a founded incident changed: an incident is now counted as founded unless there is credible evidence that it did not occur. This raised recorded counts across many offence types. Comparisons that cross 2018 should note it.",
      "source": "Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, 2018"
    },
    {
      "scope_key": "global",
      "note_text": "Newfoundland and Labrador is policed by the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary and the RCMP. UCR coverage of the provincial population is 100 percent.",
      "source": "Statistics Canada, Police-reported crime statistics in Canada, 2025"
    },
    {
      "scope_key": "group:F",
      "note_text": "Most white-collar conduct never enters this data. Securities matters go to provincial securities commissions, competition and corporate matters to federal regulators, tax matters to the Canada Revenue Agency, and professional misconduct to licensing bodies. What appears here is only the portion handled as a criminal offence by police.",
      "source": "Structural note"
    },
    {
      "scope_key": "group:F",
      "note_text": "This grouping has no official total in the source table. The figure shown is the sum of the offences listed beneath it.",
      "source": "Structural note"
    },
    {
      "scope_key": "group:F",
      "note_text": "The survey records all fraud as a single category regardless of dollar value. The Criminal Code distinguishes fraud over $5,000 from fraud under $5,000, but the UCR does not carry that split — a $200 bad cheque and a multimillion-dollar scheme are the same code. Theft, by contrast, is split into over and under $5,000 in this same survey. The fraud count here is therefore dominated by its smallest cases with no way to separate them from the serious ones.",
      "source": "Statistics Canada, UCR violation coding structure (document 3302_D15_V13); Criminal Code ss. 380(1)(a) and (b)"
    }
  ]
}