Chart 3
Percent of guilty cases involving Black accused persons sentenced to custody in adult criminal courts, Canada, 2016/2017 to 2022/2023
Note(s):
A case is one or more charges against an accused person that were processed by the courts at the same time and received a final decision. Guilty findings include guilty of the charged offence, of an included offence, of an attempt of the charged offence or of an attempt of an included offence. This category also includes guilty pleas and cases where an absolute or conditional discharge has been imposed. Black accused persons include those who reported being "Black" or "Black" and "White" in the Census of Population. Data exclude information from superior courts in Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan, as well as municipal courts in Quebec because of the unavailability of data. Superior court information for Prince Edward Island was also unavailable until 2018/2019. Data for Quebec were not available for 2021/2022 and 2022/2023.
Chart description
This is a line chart.
| % | |
|---|---|
| 2016/2017 | 29 |
| 2017/2018 | 28 |
| 2018/2019 | 32 |
| 2019/2020 | 34 |
| 2020/2021 | 34 |
| 2021/2022 | 16 |
| 2022/2023 | 23 |
Note(s):
A case is one or more charges against an accused person that were processed by the courts at the same time and received a final decision. Guilty findings include guilty of the charged offence, of an included offence, of an attempt of the charged offence or of an attempt of an included offence. This category also includes guilty pleas and cases where an absolute or conditional discharge has been imposed. Black accused persons include those who reported being "Black" or "Black" and "White" in the Census of Population. Data exclude information from superior courts in Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan, as well as municipal courts in Quebec because of the unavailability of data. Superior court information for Prince Edward Island was also unavailable until 2018/2019. Data for Quebec were not available for 2021/2022 and 2022/2023.
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