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- Articles and reports: 85-002-X201800154976Description:
This Juristat article examines economic factors that differentiate those who come into contact with the justice system once, compared to those who have repeated contact. Linking justice data from the Saskatchewan re-contact analytical file and tax information from the T1 Family File, this article provides an economic and employment profile of adults who had contact with Saskatchewan police between April 2009 and March 2010. In addition, inequalities in certain measures of health and social well-being among those who had a contact with Saskatchewan police between 2009 and 2010 are also explored.
Release date: 2018-09-06 - Stats in brief: 89-28-0001201800100004Description:
This table presents information relating to firearms and violent crime using data reported by police to Statistics Canada, including recent trends in census metropolitan areas.
Release date: 2018-08-28 - Articles and reports: 85-002-X201800154974Description:
This annual Juristat article presents findings from the 2017 Uniform Crime Reporting Survey. It examines trends in the volume and seriousness of police-reported crime for both violent and non-violent offences at the national, provincial/territorial and census metropolitan area levels. Specific violations, such as homicide, sexual assault, and breaking and entering are examined, as well as trends in youth accused of crime.
Release date: 2018-07-23 - Articles and reports: 85-002-X201800154975Description:
This Juristat article provides an overview of rates of unfounded criminal incidents for 2017, with a particular focus on sexual assaults given that several police services conducted reviews of their sexual assault cases in 2017. Following national media attention in 2017 regarding the use of 'unfounded' by police to classify sexual assaults, Statistics Canada and representatives of the policing community made recommendations to address data quality issues and standardization to reintroduce the publication of unfounded criminal incidents.
Release date: 2018-07-23 - Stats in brief: 11-001-X20182044751Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2018-07-23
- Stats in brief: 11-627-M2018022Description:
Key statistics about crime in Canada are presented in this infographic. Findings on changes to the Crime Severity Index (CSI) at the national, provincial, territorial and Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) levels are presented. Also included are the categories of crime which were reported in 2017.
Release date: 2018-07-23 - Stats in brief: 11-627-M2018024Description:
Based on the data from the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, this infographic presents the proportion of sexual and physical assaults that were classified as unfounded in 2017.
Release date: 2018-07-23 - Data Visualization: 71-607-X2018008Description:
The Canadian Community Crime Tracker (CCCT) is a new advanced web-based data visualization tool that will make statistical information on crime and justice more interpretable by presenting key indicators in a statistical dashboard. The current version of the CCCT contains key indicators of crime based on police-reported data from the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Survey, including the Crime Severity Index, rates of selected offences, rates of unfounded incidents and rates of firearm-related violent crime. Data are for 2016 and 2017 and presented at the national, provincial, territorial levels, as well as for police service boundaries (meaning municipal police services as well as detachments of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Ontario Provincial Police, the Sûreté du Québec and the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary).
Release date: 2018-07-23 - Table: 35-10-0026-01(formerly: CANSIM 252-0052)Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area partDescription: Crime severity index and weighted clearance rates, five years of data.Release date: 2018-07-23
- Table: 35-10-0061-01(formerly: CANSIM 252-0087)Geography: Province or territoryDescription: Crime severity index and weighted clearance rates, police services in Saskatchewan, five years of data.Release date: 2018-07-23
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- Data Visualization: 71-607-X2018008Description:
The Canadian Community Crime Tracker (CCCT) is a new advanced web-based data visualization tool that will make statistical information on crime and justice more interpretable by presenting key indicators in a statistical dashboard. The current version of the CCCT contains key indicators of crime based on police-reported data from the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Survey, including the Crime Severity Index, rates of selected offences, rates of unfounded incidents and rates of firearm-related violent crime. Data are for 2016 and 2017 and presented at the national, provincial, territorial levels, as well as for police service boundaries (meaning municipal police services as well as detachments of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Ontario Provincial Police, the Sûreté du Québec and the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary).
Release date: 2018-07-23 - Table: 35-10-0026-01(formerly: CANSIM 252-0052)Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area partDescription: Crime severity index and weighted clearance rates, five years of data.Release date: 2018-07-23
- Table: 35-10-0061-01(formerly: CANSIM 252-0087)Geography: Province or territoryDescription: Crime severity index and weighted clearance rates, police services in Saskatchewan, five years of data.Release date: 2018-07-23
- Table: 35-10-0063-01(formerly: CANSIM 252-0089)Geography: Province or territoryDescription: Crime severity index and weighted clearance rates, police services in British Columbia, five years of data.Release date: 2018-07-23
- Table: 35-10-0064-01(formerly: CANSIM 252-0090)Geography: Province or territoryDescription: Crime severity index and weighted clearance rates, police services in the Territories, five years of data.Release date: 2018-07-23
- Table: 35-10-0177-01(formerly: CANSIM 252-0051)Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area partDescription:
This table contains 173376 series, with data for years 1998 - 2016 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (48 items: Canada; Newfoundland and Labrador; St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador; Prince Edward Island; ...) Violations (258 items: Total, all violations; Total, all Criminal Code violations (including traffic); Total, all Criminal Code violations (excluding traffic); Total violent Criminal Code violations; ...) Statistics (14 items: Actual incidents; Rate per 100,000 population; Percentage change in rate; Total cleared; ...).
Release date: 2018-07-23 - 7. Incident-based crime statistics, by detailed violations, police services in the Atlantic provincesTable: 35-10-0178-01(formerly: CANSIM 252-0075)Geography: Province or territoryDescription:
This table contains 1029420 series, with data for years 1998 - 2016 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (285 items: Newfoundland and Labrador; Natuashish, Newfoundland and Labrador, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, rural; Makkovik, Newfoundland and Labrador, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, rural; Rigolet, Newfoundland and Labrador, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, rural; ...) Violations (258 items: Total, all violations; Total, all Criminal Code violations (including traffic); Total, all Criminal Code violations (excluding traffic); Total violent Criminal Code violations; ...) Statistics (14 items: Actual incidents; Rate per 100,000 population; Percentage change in rate; Total cleared; ...).
Release date: 2018-07-23 - Table: 35-10-0179-01(formerly: CANSIM 252-0076)Geography: Province or territoryDescription:
This table contains 1213632 series, with data for years 1998 - 2016 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (336 items: Quebec; Alma, Quebec, municipal; Amos, Quebec, municipal; Asbestos, Quebec, municipal; ...) Violations (258 items: Total, all violations; Total, all Criminal Code violations (including traffic); Total, all Criminal Code violations (excluding traffic); Total violent Criminal Code violations; ...) Statistics (14 items: Actual incidents; Rate per 100,000 population; Percentage change in rate; Total cleared; ...).
Release date: 2018-07-23 - Table: 35-10-0180-01(formerly: CANSIM 252-0077)Geography: Province or territoryDescription:
This table contains 1484532 series, with data for years 1998 - 2016 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (411 items: Ontario; Meaford-Thornbury, Ontario, municipal; Akwesasne Mohawk, Ontario, municipal; Alexandria, Ontario, municipal; ...) Violations (258 items: Total, all violations; Total, all Criminal Code violations (including traffic); Total, all Criminal Code violations (excluding traffic); Total violent Criminal Code violations; ...) Statistics (14 items: Actual incidents; Rate per 100,000 population; Percentage change in rate; Total cleared; ...) .
Release date: 2018-07-23 - Table: 35-10-0181-01(formerly: CANSIM 252-0078)Geography: Province or territoryDescription:
This table contains 538188 series, with data for years 1998 - 2016 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (149 items: Manitoba; Altona, Manitoba, municipal; Chemawawin, Manitoba, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, rural; Carman Area, Manitoba, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, rural; ...) Violations (258 items: Total, all violations; Total, all Criminal Code violations (including traffic); Total, all Criminal Code violations (excluding traffic); Total violent Criminal Code violations; ...) Statistics (14 items: Actual incidents; Rate per 100,000 population; Percentage change in rate; Total cleared; ...).
Release date: 2018-07-23
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- Articles and reports: 85-002-X201800154976Description:
This Juristat article examines economic factors that differentiate those who come into contact with the justice system once, compared to those who have repeated contact. Linking justice data from the Saskatchewan re-contact analytical file and tax information from the T1 Family File, this article provides an economic and employment profile of adults who had contact with Saskatchewan police between April 2009 and March 2010. In addition, inequalities in certain measures of health and social well-being among those who had a contact with Saskatchewan police between 2009 and 2010 are also explored.
Release date: 2018-09-06 - Stats in brief: 89-28-0001201800100004Description:
This table presents information relating to firearms and violent crime using data reported by police to Statistics Canada, including recent trends in census metropolitan areas.
Release date: 2018-08-28 - Articles and reports: 85-002-X201800154974Description:
This annual Juristat article presents findings from the 2017 Uniform Crime Reporting Survey. It examines trends in the volume and seriousness of police-reported crime for both violent and non-violent offences at the national, provincial/territorial and census metropolitan area levels. Specific violations, such as homicide, sexual assault, and breaking and entering are examined, as well as trends in youth accused of crime.
Release date: 2018-07-23 - Articles and reports: 85-002-X201800154975Description:
This Juristat article provides an overview of rates of unfounded criminal incidents for 2017, with a particular focus on sexual assaults given that several police services conducted reviews of their sexual assault cases in 2017. Following national media attention in 2017 regarding the use of 'unfounded' by police to classify sexual assaults, Statistics Canada and representatives of the policing community made recommendations to address data quality issues and standardization to reintroduce the publication of unfounded criminal incidents.
Release date: 2018-07-23 - Stats in brief: 11-001-X20182044751Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2018-07-23
- Stats in brief: 11-627-M2018022Description:
Key statistics about crime in Canada are presented in this infographic. Findings on changes to the Crime Severity Index (CSI) at the national, provincial, territorial and Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) levels are presented. Also included are the categories of crime which were reported in 2017.
Release date: 2018-07-23 - Stats in brief: 11-627-M2018024Description:
Based on the data from the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, this infographic presents the proportion of sexual and physical assaults that were classified as unfounded in 2017.
Release date: 2018-07-23 - Articles and reports: 85-002-X201800154973Description:
This Juristat article provides information on the collection, through the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, of unfounded criminal incidents in Canada, including sexual assaults. It will provide background on the collection of these data and an overview of the actions taken by the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics - a division at Statistics Canada - and the Police Information and Statistics Committee of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police to revise the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey to address data quality and reporting issues, and to reinstate collection of information on unfounded criminal incidents.
Release date: 2018-07-12 - Stats in brief: 11-627-M2018023Description:
This infographic denotes the process taken by Statistics Canada in collaboration with data providers and other stakeholders to review and standardize the collection of data on unfounded incidents through the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, and the release of data to the public.
Release date: 2018-07-12 - Articles and reports: 85-005-X201800154962Description:
This Juristat Bulletin—Quick Fact presents charts and data in an infographic style format that examines the nature and prevalence of firearm-related violent crime in Canada.
Release date: 2018-06-28
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- 1. Collecting Data on Aboriginal People in the Criminal Justice System: Methods and ChallengesArchivedSurveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 85-564-XGeography: Province or territoryDescription:
This objective of this report is to present the status of national data on Aboriginal people who come into contact with the criminal justice system as offenders and victims. The report examines the current and potential collection of an individual's Aboriginal identity through various justice-related surveys at Statistics Canada, the challenges within these surveys to collect these data and provides some insight into the quality of these data. The data and sources are examined within the context of information needs for the justice and social policy sectors, and in relation to the preferred method of measuring Aboriginal Identity at Statistics Canada. Data sources examined include the Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, the Homicide Survey, the Integrated Criminal Courts Survey, the Adult Corrections Survey, the Youth Custody and Community Services Survey, the Youth Alternative Measures Survey, the Transition Home Survey, the Victim Services Survey and the General Social Survey on Victimization. Finally, the report briefly describes efforts by other countries to improve justice-related information on their indigenous populations.
Release date: 2005-05-10 - Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3302Description: The Uniform Crime Reporting Survey was designed to measure the incidence of crime in Canadian society and its characteristics. The information is used by federal and provincial policy makers as well as public and private researchers.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3315Description: This survey collects detailed data on homicide in Canada. The survey has collected police-reported data on the characteristics of all murder incidents, victims and accused persons since 1961 and all homicides (including murder, manslaughter and infanticide) since 1974.
- 4. Crime SurveySurveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3803Description: This survey was designed to provide information for planning and evaluating crime prevention programs.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5037Description: The goals of this survey were to enhance our understanding of hate crime in Canada and to assess the feasibility of collecting national police-reported hate crime statistics.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5133Description: The purpose of this survey is to collect national-level data on the prevalence and types of fraud experienced by certain business sectors. These data are required to respond to the need for better information on the nature and extent of fraud in Canada in order to improve policy and public education with respect to this issue. The survey also collects information on fraud detection and prevention and actions taken in response to incidents of fraud, including use of the criminal justice system.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5235Description: The purpose of the Survey on Sexual Misconduct in the Canadian Armed Forces (SSMCAF) is to collect information about the prevalence and nature of inappropriate sexual behaviour within the military, the reporting of inappropriate sexual behaviour to authorities and military members' perception of the Canadian Armed Forces' (CAF) response to this issue.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5244Description: The purpose of this survey is to collect data on the impact of cybercrime to Canadian businesses and their activities to mitigate the effects. The survey includes information on investment in cyber security measures, cyber security training, the volume of cyber security incidents, and the costs associated with responding to these incidents.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5248Description: The National Fire Information Database (NFID) is a pilot project with the objective of gathering ten years of microdata information on fire incidents and fire losses from provincial/territorial Fire Marshals and Fire Commissioners Offices across Canada, standardizing the data, and creating a centralized national system for the collection of fire statistics.
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