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Data from the Police Reported Crime Severity Index. Measures changes in Canadian crime severity from year to year. In the index, all crimes are assigned a weight based on their seriousness, based on actual sentences handed down in all provinces and territories. Serious crimes are assigned high weights while less serious offences have lower weights.

Data from the Police Reported Crime Severity Index. Measures changes in the level of severity of crime in Canada from year to year. In the index, all crimes are assigned a weight based on their seriousness, based on actual sentences handed down in all provinces and territories. Serious crimes are assigned high weights while less serious offences have lower weights.

Includes the number of crimes, whether police have solved the crime and any charges laid. These statistics also include information about the type of crimes committed, as well as the characteristics of the victims and accused. *This data set is no longer compiled by the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services. * **The data can be accessed fromStatistics Canada.

Property crimes are typically non-violent in nature and include: * breaking and entering * motor vehicle theft * theft over $5,000 (non-motor vehicle) * theft under $5,000 (non-motor vehicle) * mischief This data set is no longer compiled by the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services. The data can be accessed fromStatistics Canada.

The weighted clearance rate is based on the same principles as the Police Reported Crime Severity Index. In these figures,  serious offences are assigned a higher "weight" than less serious offences. For example, solving homicides and robberies has a greater contribution to the overall weighted clearance rate than solving minor theft or mischief cases. **This dataset is no longer compiled by the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services.

The dataset includes crime statistics at the provincial and police service levels. It is based on police reported incidents of crime reported through the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (UCR). Statistics include the crime severity index, violent crime severity index, and non-violent crime severity index overall for provincial and police service levels. The Youth Crime Severity Index is based on the same principles as the overall Crime Severity Index, which reflects the seriousness of offences, but uses the number of youths accused instead of an incident count.

The data, by region, contains: * the number of violations under the Youth Criminal Justice Act * child pornography * sexual violations against children * luring a child via a computer * making sexually explicit material available to children The survey was designed to measure the incidence of crime in our society and its characteristics. The Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, in co-operation with the policing community, collects police-reported crime statistics through the UCR survey. Adapted from Statistics Canada, CANSIM Table 252-0077, 2015. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product. *[ CANSIM]: Canadian Socio-Economic Information Management System *[UCR]: Uniform Crime Reporting

Violent crimes under the Criminal Code include: * homicide * attempted murder * sexual assault (levels 1-3) * assault * robbery * criminal harassment * uttering threats * other violent violations This dataset is no longer compiled by the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services. The data can be accessed from Statistics Canada.

The data contains the number of criminal incidents, the clearance status of those incidents and persons-charged, by MCYS region (Central, East, North, Toronto, West, Other). The survey was designed to measure the incidence of crime in our society and its characteristics. The Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, in co-operation with the policing community, collects police-reported crime statistics through the UCR survey. _Adapted from Statistics Canada, CANSIM Table 252-0077, 2015.

The dataset includes incident-based crime statistics at the provincial and police service level. Statistics include the number of incidents of offences and rates per 100,000 population for total Criminal Code violations (excluding traffic), total violent Criminal Code violations, total property crime violations, and total "other" Criminal Code violations. This data is sourced from Statistics Canada through CANSIM.