Annual Criminal Court Cases and Charges for Black Accused Persons in Canada

Statistics Canada publishes annual data on charges and cases in adult criminal courts involving Black accused persons, categorized by type of offence. The dataset is available in XML, CSV, and HTML formats under the OGL-CA-2.0 license. Its last recorded update was on 2026-05-28.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in case volumes for Black accused persons based on annual time series data.
• Compare the distribution of charges by type of offence for demographic research.
• Assess the outcomes of adult criminal court proceedings for specific offence categories mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Data is published by Statistics Canada, a national statistical agency.
• Annual time series allows for longitudinal analysis of trends.
• Available in multiple open formats (XML, CSV, HTML).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Statistics Canada | Statistique Canada

Time Range

Annual

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-28 12:48:38.510913; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Canada