Criminal Justice Indicators - ARCHIVED
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This report presents indicators to measure the workload and performance of the criminal justice system, as well as indictors on a number of socio-demographic and economic factors that can be associated with crime and victimization. In this report, workload and volume measures centre on the work of the police, courts, corrections, diversion programs and victim services and changes over time. Examples of workload and volume indicators examined in this report include: the number of criminal incidents known to police; the number of people serviced by alternative measures, mediation, dispute resolution and diversion programs; the number of cases dealt with in court; average counts in corrections institutions, and; the number of persons assisted by victim service agencies. Performance indicators are organized according to the following five general goals of the criminal justice system: 1) Public order, safety and national security through prevention and intervention; 2) Offender accountability, reintegration and rehabilitation; 3) Public trust, confidence and respect for the justice system; 4) Social equity and access to the justice system for all citizens, and; 5) Victim needs served. Examples of performance indicators examined in this report are: the overall cost of administering the sectors of the criminal justice system; the type and length of sentences ordered in court; public satisfaction with the police, the courts, and the correctional and parole systems; the number of applications for legal aid, and; the number of services for victims of crime. The various socio-demographic and economic indicators included in this report are presented in order to present statistical information on the factors that can be associated with crime. These 'context of crime indicators are organized into three broad categories: Community and society, Family, and Individual. Examples of such indicators examined in this report are: the age and sex distributions of the population; income levels and labour force participation; levels of social engagement; levels of gang activity; family structures; levels of child support; levels of education; the rate of literacy, and; the rate of alcohol and drug abuse among the adult and youth population.
Titles | Release date | More Information |
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Criminal Justice Indicators, 2005 - ARCHIVED | December 20, 2005 | More information |
Criminal Justice Indicators, 2000/2001 - ARCHIVED | November 5, 2002 | More information |
Criminal Justice Indicators, 1999/2000 - ARCHIVED | July 17, 2001 | More information |
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Subjects and keywords
Subjects
Keywords
- Adult offenders
- Alternative measures
- Analytical products
- Assaults
- Behavioural disorders
- Break and enter offences
- Child abuse
- Correctional facilities
- Crime rate
- Criminal courts
- Criminal harassment
- Custodial dispositions
- Divorces
- Dropouts
- Elder abuse
- Family violence
- Fines and penalties
- Fraud
- Hate crimes
- Homicide rates
- Homicides
- Immigrants
- Incidents reported
- Income inequality
- Inmates
- International comparisons
- Interprovincial migrants
- Length of sentence
- Mischief
- Open custody
- Organized crime
- Parole
- Performance indicators
- Personal safety
- Police officers
- Population growth
- Probation
- Property crimes
- Provincial differences
- Recidivism
- School leavers
- Secure custody
- Sentences (Justice)
- Social capital
- Spousal violence
- Stolen goods possession
- Theft
- Unemployment rate
- Victimization
- Violent crimes and offences
- Vital statistics
- Young offenders
- Youth courts
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