Table 7
Three-year incidence of reconviction by Indigenous identity, criminal history and type of new conviction


Table 7
Three-year incidence of reconviction by Indigenous identity, criminal history and type of new conviction
Table summary
This table displays the results of Three-year incidence of reconviction by indigenous identity. The information is grouped by Indigenous identity and number of prior convictions (appearing as row headers), Total number of people , Type of new conviction, Any new conviction, Violent, Property, Other Criminal Code or federal statute and Administration of justice , calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Indigenous identityTable 7 Note 2 and number of prior convictionsTable 7 Note 3 Total number of people Type of new convictionTable 7 Note 1
Any new conviction ViolentTable 7 Note 4 Property Other Criminal Code or federal statute Administration of justice
number percent number percent number percent number percent number percent
Indigenous
0 to 1 1,580 510 32.28 165 10.44 150 9.49 140 8.86 355 22.47
2 to 4 3,350 1,535 45.82 600 17.91 535 15.97 485 14.48 1,160 34.63
5 to 9 3,245 1,965 60.55 875 26.96 825 25.42 725 22.34 1,590 49.00
10 or more 8,110 6,760 83.35 3,485 42.97 4,185 51.60 3,205 39.52 5,835 71.95
Non-Indigenous
0 to 1 11,335 2,000 17.64 660 5.82 665 5.87 695 6.13 1,265 11.16
2 to 4 14,335 4,485 31.29 1,560 10.88 1,755 12.24 1,605 11.20 3,085 21.52
5 to 9 8,735 4,540 51.97 1,685 19.29 2,315 26.50 1,770 20.26 3,465 39.67
10 or more 14,485 11,040 76.22 4,835 33.38 7,575 52.30 5,340 36.87 9,090 62.75
Note 1

Reconviction is defined as any new federal statute conviction (in any province or territory) with an offence date after release from full-time custody or start of an intermittent or community sentence and before the end of the fixed three-year follow-up period. Someone could have more than one type of new conviction, therefore, percentages for the different types of new convictions do not sum to the overarching category of any new conviction.

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Note 2

Indigenous refers to persons who are First Nations people, Métis and/or Inuit. Indigenous identity information is self-reported upon intake to correctional services.

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Note 3

Prior convictions were identified based on the date of the conviction in court for a 10-year period prior to and including the day on which the person was release from full-time custody or started an intermittent or community sentence. It is possible for someone to have 0 prior convictions if their only prior conviction occurred more than 10 years earlier.

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Note 4

Violent offences are defined as crimes against the person, which include criminal harassment, uttering threats, assault, sexual assault, other sexual offences and offences in relation to sexual services, robbery, attempted murder, and homicide.

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Note: This table presents data for the 2015/2016 cohort of adults supervised by five provincial correctional programs: Nova Scotia, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia. Additionally, this table excludes individuals whose Indigenous identity was unknown (2% of the cohort).
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Linked Canadian Correctional Services Survey, Integrated Criminal Court Survey and Canadian Vital Statistics – Death Database.
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