The New-Brunswick Aboriginal Duty Counsel Project
9. OFFENCE TYPES
The people in the sample were charged with about twenty different offences, the vast majority of which fell into a few offence categories. More than half of all offences are made up of only three offence categories. Seventy-five percent of all offences comprise only five offences. This is not atypical. Most criminal offences tend generally to fall into a small number of offence categories.
Offence | Number | Percent | Cumulative Percent |
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Assault | 43 | 29.5 % | 32.5 % |
Motor vehicle | 27 | 15.5 % | 48.0 % |
Mischief | 12 | 8.2 % | 56.2 % |
Break and Enter/ Possession | 15 | 10.7 % | 66.9 % |
Breach of Probation | 10 | 6.8 % | 73.7 % |
Sexual Assault | 4 | 2.7 % | 76.4 % |
Uttering Threats | 4 | 2.7 % | 79.1 % |
Other | 31 | 19.9 % | 100.0 % |
Many offences would not meet the normal legal aid coverage provisions. Most notably, motor vehicle offences make up nearly 15 % of all offences. The "other" category includes 15 provincial offences, about 5 % of the total, that would not be covered by legal aid.
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