Number, percentage and rate (per 100,000 population) of homicide victims, by racialized identity group (total, by racialized identity group; racialized identity group; South Asian; Chinese; Black; Filipino; Arab; Latin American; Southeast Asian; West Asian; Korean; Japanese; other racialized identity group; multiple racialized identity; racialized identity, but racialized identity group is unknown; rest of the population; unknown racialized identity group), gender (all genders; male; female; gender unknown) and region (Canada; Atlantic region; Quebec; Ontario; Prairies region; British Columbia; territories), 2019 to 2023.

The rate of incidents of violent criminal code violations in Canada increased by 51.1 incidents (+3.71 percent) in 2023 in comparison to the previous year. In total, the rate of incidents amounted to 1,427.94 incidents in 2023.

Number and rate (per 100,000 population) of homicide victims, Canada and Census Metropolitan Areas, 1981 to 2023.

Canada crime rate per 100K population for 2021 was 2.07, a 3.1% increase from 2020.

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<li>Canada crime rate per 100K population for 2020 was <strong>2.00</strong>, a <strong>9.1% increase</strong> from 2019.</li>
<li>Canada crime rate per 100K population for 2019 was <strong>1.84</strong>, a <strong>2.73% increase</strong> from 2018.</li>
<li>Canada crime rate per 100K population for 2018 was <strong>1.79</strong>, a <strong>1.74% decline</strong> from 2017.</li>
</ul>Intentional homicides are estimates of unlawful homicides purposely inflicted as a result of domestic disputes, interpersonal violence, violent conflicts over land resources, intergang violence over turf or control, and predatory violence and killing by armed groups. Intentional homicide does not include all intentional killing; the difference is usually in the organization of the killing. Individuals or small groups usually commit homicide, whereas killing in armed conflict is usually committed by fairly cohesive groups of up to several hundred members and is thus usually excluded.

There has been little research on United States homicide rates from a long-term perspective, primarily because there has been no consistent data series on a particular place preceding the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), which began its first full year in 1931. To fill this research gap, this project created a data series on homicides per capita for New York City that spans two centuries. The goal was to create a site-specific, individual-based data series that could be used to examine major social shifts related to homicide, such as mass immigration, urban growth, war, demographic changes, and changes in laws. Data were also gathered on various other sites, particularly in England, to allow for comparisons on important issues, such as the post-World War II wave of violence. The basic approach to the data collection was to obtain the best possible estimate of annual counts and the most complete information on individual homicides. The annual count data (Parts 1 and 3) were derived from multiple sources, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Reports and Supplementary Homicide Reports, as well as other official counts from the New York City Police Department and the City Inspector in the early 19th century. The data include a combined count of murder and manslaughter because charge bargaining often blurs this legal distinction. The individual-level data (Part 2) were drawn from coroners' indictments held by the New York City Municipal Archives, and from daily newspapers. Duplication was avoided by keeping a record for each victim. The estimation technique known as "capture-recapture" was used to estimate homicides not listed in either source. Part 1 variables include counts of New York City homicides, arrests, and convictions, as well as the homicide rate, race or ethnicity and gender of victims, type of weapon used, and source of data. Part 2 includes the date of the murder, the age, sex, and race of the offender and victim, and whether the case led to an arrest, trial, conviction, execution, or pardon. Part 3 contains annual homicide counts and rates for various comparison sites including Liverpool, London, Kent, Canada, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Seattle, and San Francisco.

Crime severity index (violent, non-violent, youth) and weighted clearance rates (violent, non-violent), police services in the Territories (Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut), 1998 to 2017.

Number and percentage of homicide victims, by type of firearm used to commit the homicide (total firearms; handgun; rifle or shotgun; fully automatic firearm; sawed-off rifle or shotgun; firearm-like weapons; other firearms, type unknown), Canada, 1974 to 2018.

To inform policy development, public engagement and communications, and to support its mandate, the Department of Justice commissions periodic national surveys to understand Canadians’ perceptions, understanding, and priorities on justice-related issues. Specifically, the study measures awareness, knowledge, and confidence in the criminal justice system and criminal law; examines Canadians’ perceptions of the criminal justice system, the values they want the criminal justice system to reflect, and priorities with respect to criminal justice issues; and Canadians’ expectations of the criminal justice system to support reforms and new initiatives in this area. A large scale survey of 4,200 Canadians on awareness and top-of-mind perceptions, values and expectations regarding the criminal justice system. Survey respondents were randomly sampled from EKOS’ in-house panel (Probit1).

The Survey concluded with the following information: Most respondents in the first survey report having had some exposure to or direct involvement with the criminal justice system, including knowing someone who was a victim or accused or as a witness. About one in four reports having been a victim of a violent or non-violent crime. Some report having been accused or convicted of a crime. One in four is a family member of a victim or someone accused or convicted of a crime. Almost half of Canadians in the first survey indicated they get information about the criminal justice system from their personal experience or the experience of someone they know. Another third get information from professionals in the system.

Respondents tend to believe that crime rates are rising, when they have in fact been declining steadily over the past decade or more, with the exception of a marginal increase in 2015 over 2014. Three in ten understand that the rate has been dropping over the past five years; however, one in five believe it is stagnant and almost half believe it rose over the last five years (when most years there has been a decline). Survey results and focus group discussions highlight Canadians’ views about the importance of crime prevention, rehabilitation and other approaches to sentencing such as restorative justice, as well as the need to separate offenders from society where necessary. There is also strong support for efforts and investment in primary crime prevention to address root causes and reduce the likelihood of crimes being committed before they occur. Canadians welcome information about the current issues with the criminal justice system.

GapMaps GIS data for USA and Canada sourced from Applied Geographic Solutions (AGS) includes an extensive range of the highest quality demographic and lifestyle segmentation products. All databases are derived from superior source data and the most sophisticated, refined, and proven methodologies.

GIS Data attributes include:

1. Latest Estimates and Projections The estimates and projections database includes a wide range of core demographic data variables for the current year and 5- year projections, covering five broad topic areas: population, households, income, labor force, and dwellings.

2. Crime Risk Crime Risk is the result of an extensive analysis of a rolling seven years of FBI crime statistics. Based on detailed modeling of the relationships between crime and demographics, Crime Risk provides an accurate view of the relative risk of specific crime types (personal, property and total) at the block and block group level.

3. Panorama Segmentation AGS has created a segmentation system for the United States called Panorama. Panorama has been coded with the MRI Survey data to bring you Consumer Behavior profiles associated with this segmentation system.

4. Business Counts Business Counts is a geographic summary database of business establishments, employment, occupation and retail sales.

5. Non-Resident Population The AGS non-resident population estimates utilize a wide range of data sources to model the factors which drive tourists to particular locations, and to match that demand with the supply of available accommodations.

6. Consumer Expenditures AGS provides current year and 5-year projected expenditures for over 390 individual categories that collectively cover almost 95% of household spending.

7. Retail Potential This tabulation utilizes the Census of Retail Trade tables which cross-tabulate store type by merchandise line.

8. Environmental Risk The environmental suite of data consists of several separate database components including: -Weather Risks -Seismological Risks -Wildfire Risk -Climate -Air Quality -Elevation and terrain

Primary Use Cases for GapMaps GIS Data:

1. Retail (eg. Fast Food/ QSR, Cafe, Fitness, Supermarket/Grocery)
2. Customer Profiling: get a detailed understanding of the demographic & segmentation profile of your customers, where they work and their spending potential
3. Analyse your trade areas at a granular census block level using all the key metrics
4. Site Selection: Identify optimal locations for future expansion and benchmark performance across existing locations.
5. Target Marketing: Develop effective marketing strategies to acquire more customers.

6. Integrate AGS demographic data with your existing GIS or BI platform to generate powerful visualizations.

7. Finance / Insurance (eg. Hedge Funds, Investment Advisors, Investment Research, REITs, Private Equity, VC)

8. Network Planning

9. Customer (Risk) Profiling for insurance/loan approvals

10. Target Marketing

11. Competitive Analysis

12. Market Optimization

13. Commercial Real-Estate (Brokers, Developers, Investors, Single & Multi-tenant O/O)

14. Tenant Recruitment

15. Target Marketing

16. Market Potential / Gap Analysis

17. Marketing / Advertising (Billboards/OOH, Marketing Agencies, Indoor Screens)

18. Customer Profiling

19. Target Marketing

20. Market Share Analysis

Victims of gang-related homicides (total number of homicide victims; number of homicide victims - unknown gang-relation; number of homicide victims - known gang relation; number of gang-related homicide victims; percentage of gang-related homicide victims; rate (per 100,000 population) of gang-related homicide victims), Canada and regions, 1999 to 2023.

This infographic was created for internal briefing purposes by the Policy Research Group, Department of Canadian Heritage as it is a clear, effective and artistic way of presenting complex data, while keeping the attention of the viewer. It is a visual representation of data from Police-reported hate crime, 2016 released by Statistics Canada on November 28, 2017. Canadian Heritage is committed to sharing its internal research products as a commitment to open research, one of the pillars of its Open Government Strategy. The Policy Research Group would appreciate your comments and feedback on this product. Please contact us.

Crime data updated weekly, generalized

Context

OpenAddresses's goal is to connect the digital and physical worlds by sharing geographic coordinates, street names, house numbers and postal codes.

Content

This dataset contains one data file for each of these countries:

• Bermuda - bermuda.csv
• Canada - canada.csv
• Curaçao - curaçao.csv
• Jamaica - jamaica.csv
• Mexico - mexico.csv

Field descriptions:

• LON - Longitude
• LAT - Latitude
• NUMBER - Street number
• STREET - Street name
• UNIT - Unit or apartment number
• CITY - City name
• DISTRICT - ?
• REGION - ?
• POSTCODE - Postcode or zipcode
• ID - ?
• HASH - ?

Acknowledgements

Data collected around 2017-07-25 by OpenAddresses (http://openaddresses.io).

Address data is essential infrastructure. Street names, house numbers and postal codes, when combined with geographic coordinates, are the hub that connects digital to physical places.

Data licenses can be found in LICENSE.txt.

Data source information can be found at https://github.com/openaddresses/openaddresses/tree/9ea72b079aaff7d322349e4b812eb43eb94d6d93/sources

Inspiration

Use this dataset to create maps in conjunction with other datasets to map weather, crime, or how your next canoing trip.

This infographic was created for internal briefing purposes by the Policy Research Group, Department of Canadian Heritage as it is a clear, effective and artistic way of presenting complex data, while keeping the attention of the viewer. It is a visual representation of data from Police-reported hate crime, 2016 released by Statistics Canada on November 28, 2017. Canadian Heritage is committed to sharing its internal research products as a commitment to open research, one of the pillars of its Open Government Strategy. The Policy Research Group would appreciate your comments and feedback on this product. Please contact us.

Background [Extract from Related publication]:

Homicide numbers are relatively low in Queensland, less than one incident per week, and in most cases the victim has been located at the scene of the crime. However, there are approximately 2.5% of victims that have never been located. This has flow on consequences such as difficulty in proving death and then murder by the prosecution, difficulty in gathering forensic evidence when a victim cannot be located and the grief experienced by the co-victims, family and friends who have no closure. There have been limited studies on the disposal of homicide victims, mostly related to sexual serial or familial killings in the United States of America, Canada and Finland (Beauregard & Field, 2008; Beauregard & Martineau, 2014; DiBiase, 2015; Ferguson & Pooley, 2019; Häkkänen, Hurme & Liukkonen, 2007; Lundrigan & Canter, 2001; Nethery, 2004)

Methods [Extract]:

There was a single source of Queensland homicide data, the Queensland Police Records and Information Exchange (QPRIME). QPRIME is the sole repository of all information pertaining to crime within the state. Permission was obtained from the Queensland Police Service to access the demographic data of all homicide incidents between 2004 and 2020. Within the data it was identified that 149 homicide victims had been moved (disposed) from where they were murdered, and of this number seventeen had never been located. The data relates to the demographics of both the victim and offender in those incidents where a homicide victim has been moved from where they were murdered. This includes the sex, height and weight of both victim and offender, method of homicide, distances moved from scene, method of transport, method of concealment and how these victims had been found in the past. No Queensland homicide incidents were excluded from this study.

The data for the non Queensland homicide victims was located in the National Missing Person Register and The Red Heart Campaign. The collection of the demographics was identical to the initial Queensland data and was stored in a parallel MS Excel sheet. Of the non Queensland homicide cases, 149 disposed homicide victim incidents were located, although all of these victims had been located.

A statistical analysis, using IBM SPSS v26, of the data was undertaken, leading to the development of the Disposed Homicide Victim Matrix (DHVM).

The DHVM has provided police search coordinators with the statistical information on victim disposal directions, distances, locations, concealment methods and type of searching required. This has contributed to seven victims being located from the eight times it has been utilised.

Data sources acknowledgement:

There had been no known previous whole of jurisdiction disposed homicide victim analysis previously undertaken.

This dataset consists of:

• 2 MS Excel files (2 worksheets) containing input data [also available in Open Document Format (.ods)]

Software/equipment used to collect and analyse the data: IBM SSPS Statistics v26 Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet.

Number of homicide victims, by method used to commit the homicide (total methods used; shooting; stabbing; beating; strangulation; fire (burns or suffocation); other methods used; methods used unknown), Canada, 1974 to 2023.