Pre-Trial Detention Under the Young Offenders Act: A Study of Urban Courts

**TABLE 2.8 - THE PROPORTION OF DETAINED AND NOT DETAINED YOUNG PERSONS BY THE MOST SERIOUS CHARGE AT ARREST (MAJOR OFFENCE CATEGORY), POLICE AND COURT DETENTION**
	Detained	Not detained	Detained	Not detained
	Police detention		Court detention
Column percentages
Total indictable offences vs. the person	10.0	2.6	11.0	9.3
Robbery	8.8	2.3	9.0	8.5
Other indictable person offences	1.2	0.3	2.0	0.8
Total indictable offences vs. property	20.8	13.3	20.0	20.4
Break and enter	7.8	6.8	6.3	8.1
Other indictable property offences	13.0	6.5	13.7	12.3
Indictable drug offences	6.6	1.0	6.0	6.9
Total hybrid offences vs. the person	17.8	24.9	13.0	21.8
Assault level 1	9.4	12.2	7.0	11.5
Other hybrid person offences	8.4	12.7	6.0	10.3
Total hybrid offences vs. property	16.2	36.9	13.7	17.8
Theft under $5,000	8.1	22.2	7.7	8.3
Other hybrid property offences	8.1	14.7	6.0	9.5
Other charges e.g., hybrid drugs, weapons, traffic	6.1	7.8	6.7	6.0
Breach of probation	10.0	9.6	11.3	9.3
Other offences vs. the administration of justice	12.5	3.8	18.3	8.4
Fail to attend court and fail to comply with an undertaking	9.3	3.2	11.0	7.5
Other charge type e.g., escape custody	3.2	0.6	7.3	0.8
Total percent	100.0	99.9	100.0	99.9
Total number of cases	807	780	300	504

Notes:

Offences against the person include not only the assaults and sexual assaults but also harassment, threatening bodily harm or death, intimidation and "cause fear" ("where injury or damage feared", section 810 of the Criminal Code).
As a result of coding conventions, the breach of probation and other offences against the administration of justice are underestimated.

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