Table 3
Time to reconviction after release among Indigenous adults released from provincial custody, by offence type and reconviction pattern group, 2016/2017

Table 3 Time to reconviction after release among Indigenous adults released from provincial custody, by offence type and reconviction pattern group, 2016/2017
Table summary
The information is grouped by Type of reconviction and time since release (appearing as row headers), Low reconviction group, Primarily violent and administration of justice group, Primarily property and administration of justice group, High persistent reconviction group and Total, calculated using cumulative percentage units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of reconviction and time since release Low reconviction group Primarily violent and administration of justice group Primarily property and administration of justice group High persistent reconviction group Total
cumulative percentage
Note 0

true zero or a value rounded to 0

Note 1

Includes drug offences, Criminal Code traffic offences, and other Criminal Code offences. Other federal statues include (for example) the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, Customs Act, and other federal statutes.

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Note: Indigenous persons include First Nations persons, Métis and Inuit. Information on Indigenous identity is based on data from the Canadian Correctional Services Survey, and is self-reported by persons upon intake to correctional services. Includes individuals released from provincial custody between April 1, 2016 and March 31, 2017 in the provinces of Nova Scotia, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia, whose records were successfully linked to other data sources used in this study. Excludes individuals who were released from provincial custody in 2016/2017 but who died during the subsequent four years. Percentages may not total 100% due to rounding.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Correctional Services Survey, Integrated Criminal Court Survey and Canadian Vital Statistics Database - Deaths (linked file).
Violent offences  
3 months 0 15 4 14 8
6 months 1 28 8 25 14
1 year 2 46 13 39 23
2 years 4 71 19 55 35
3 years 5 85 23 65 41
4 years 6 93 28 70 45
Property offences  
3 months 1 4 19 30 14
6 months 2 7 30 45 22
1 year 3 12 45 64 32
2 years 4 21 60 82 42
3 years 6 27 70 90 49
4 years 7 32 74 94 52
Administration of justice offences  
3 months 3 27 25 50 26
6 months 4 38 39 68 37
1 year 7 53 58 85 49
2 years 9 68 78 96 61
3 years 11 78 90 99 66
4 years 12 83 96 100 69
Other Criminal Code and federal statute offences Table 3 Note 1  
3 months 1 3 11 16 8
6 months 2 5 19 26 13
1 year 4 11 28 40 21
2 years 8 18 41 59 32
3 years 10 24 49 70 39
4 years 12 28 55 76 43
Total offences  
3 months 5 37 41 65 36
6 months 9 54 58 82 49
1 year 15 73 76 94 62
2 years 23 89 92 99 73
3 years 29 98 98 100 78
4 years 34 100 100 100 80
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