Adult Criminal Court Survey (ACCS)
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This product contains all data of the Adult Criminal Court Survey formely included in the Justice product.
Description
The objective of the Adult Criminal Court Survey (ACCS) is to develop and maintain a national adult criminal court database of statistical information on appearances, charges, and cases in adult criminal courts. The survey is intended to be a census of federal statute charges heard in provincial and superior criminal courts in Canada. It includes information on the age and sex of the accused, case decision patterns, sentencing information regarding the length of prison and probation, and amount of fine, as well as case-processing data such as case elapsed time and number of appearances per charge. These data on federal statute charges heard in adult criminal courts in the reference period are collected by the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics (CCJS) in collaboration with provincial and territorial government departments responsible for adult criminal courts.
Data
- Cases by length of elapsed time, 1994/1995 to 2009/2010
- Cases by mean and median elapsed time, 1994/1995 to 2009/2010
- Number of cases and charges by type of decision, 1994/1995 to 2009/2010
- Guilty cases by amount of fine, 1994/1995 to 2009/2010
- Guilty cases by length of custody, 1994/1995 to 2009/2010
- Guilty cases by length of probation, 1994/1995 to 2009/2010
- Guilty cases by mean and median amount of fine in dollars, 1994/1995 to 2009/2010
- Guilty cases by mean and median length of custody, 1994/1995 to 2009/2010
- Guilty cases by mean and median length of probation, 1994/1995 to 2009/2010
- Guilty cases by most serious sentence, 1994/1995 to 2009/2010
- Guilty cases by type of sentence, 1994/1995 to 2009/2010
Last modified : June 7, 2011