Description for chart 9
Guilty cases completed in youth court, by selected sentence, Canada, 1991/1992 to 2011/2012

The title of the graph is "Chart 9 Guilty cases completed in youth court, by selected sentence, Canada, 1991/1992 to 2011/2012."
This is a line chart.
There are in total 21 categories in the horizontal axis. The vertical axis starts at 0 and ends at 35 with ticks every 5 points.
There are 2 series in this graph.
The vertical axis is "percent of guilty cases."
The units of the horizontal axis are years from 1991/1992 to 2011/2012.
The title of series 1 is " Custody."
The minimum value is 15.1 occurring in 2009/2010.
The maximum value is 29.5 occurring in 1997/1998.
The title of series 2 is " Deferred custody and supervision1."
The minimum value is 3.5 occurring in 1992/1993.
The maximum value is 4.7 occurring in 1995/1996 and 1996/1997.
There is a line at year 2003/2004 indicating that on April 1, 2003 the YCJA came into effect.

Data table for chart 9
  Custody Deferred custody and supervision1
1991/1992 24.3  
1992/1993 25.9  
1993/1994 27.8  
1994/1995 28.7  
1995/1996 28.0  
1996/1997 27.9  
1997/1998 29.5  
1998/1999 29.0  
1999/2000 28.1  
2000/2001 28.6  
2001/2002 26.9  
2002/2003 26.6  
2003/2004 21.6  
2004/2005 21.1  
2005/2006 18.4 3.8
2006/2007 16.6 3.5
2007/2008 16.1 4.0
2008/2009 15.4 4.2
2009/2010 15.1 4.7
2010/2011 15.5 4.7
2011/2012 15.3 4.6
1.
Deferred custody and supervision is a sentence under the Youth Criminal Justice Act effective April 1, 2003. Data begin in 2005/2006 when all jurisdictions (with the exception of Saskatchewan) were reporting data.
Note:
A case is one or more charges against an accused person or company that were processed by the courts at the same time and received a final decision. Due to the unavailability of data for certain years, data for Saskatchewan has been removed in order to make comparisons over time.
Source:
Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Integrated Criminal Court Survey.
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