| | Aboriginal - Refers to those persons who reported identifying
with at least one Aboriginal group, i.e. North American Indian, Métis
or Inuit, and/or those who reported being a Treaty Indian or a Registered
Indian as defined by the Indian Act of Canada and/or who were members
of an Indian Band or First Nation.
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| | Admissions - Admissions data are collected when the offender
enters a type of correctional services. These data describe and measure the
changing case flow of correctional agencies over time. These data do not indicate
the number of unique individuals using correctional services since the same
person can be included several times in annual admission totals.
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| | Average counts - Average counts are derived from month-end counts
of persons in supervision.
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| | Pre-trial supervision - Pre-trial supervision, also referred
to as bail supervision, is a supervised recognizance order that provides an
alternative to custodial remand for persons awaiting trial or sentencing.This
is an option that incorporates supervision of the accused in the community
(e.g., reporting to a probation officer, respecting curfew hours, etc.) as
part of an interim release.
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| | Community service order - A court order that the offender performs
a certain number of hours of volunteer work or service in the community.
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| | Conditional release - The planned and gradual release of inmates
into the community through release mechanisms such as day parole, full parole,
temporary absence and statutory release.
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| | Conditional sentence - A type of community-supervised alternative
to imprisonment. If certain legal criteria are fulfilled, a judge may sentence
an offender to a conditional term of imprisonment who would otherwise have
been sent to prison.
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| | Contracted agency - Refers to all agencies operated by employees
from the private sector under a contracted agreement with the provincial/territorial
and/or federal and provincial governments.
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| | Criminogenic need factors (also called 'Dynamic risk factors') -
are elements of an offender's risk level of assessment that are used by correctional
workers to assess offenders. They are dynamic attributes of the offender that,
when changed, are associated with changes in the probability of re-offending.
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| | Disposition - A youth court sentence ordered under the YOA upon
finding a person guilty of an offence.
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| | Fine option program- This program provides volunteer work or
service in the community as an alternative to payment of a fine.
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| | Level of supervision/service delivery standards - The level of
supervision is usually determined by the risk/needs assessment score, which
ranges from low to intensive. The service delivery standards are policy driven
principles that dictate the nature and intensity of the contact with the client.
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| | Most serious offence (MSO) - This measure is based on the Uniform
crime reporting survey, which classifies incidents according to the most serious
offence in the incident on the basis of the penalties specified in the Criminal
code.
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| | Optional conditions of probation - Criminal Code S. 732.1(3) lists optional conditions of a probation order. The court may prescribe
that the offender do one or more of the following: report to a probation officer;
remain within the jurisdiction; abstain from the consumption of alcohol/drugs;
abstain from owning, possessing or carrying a weapon; provide support for
dependents; perform up to 240 hours of community service; and, if
the offender agrees, attend a treatment program or comply with other reasonable
conditions for protecting society and for facilitating the offender’s
successful reintegration into the community.
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| | Para-professional - Are sometimes called an assistant probation
officer. They have varying degrees of responsibilities including: assisting
in the preparation of pre-sentence reports and pre-disposition reports supervising
cases and program delivery.
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| | Pre-disposition/pre-sentence report - This is a report on the
personal and family history as well as the present environment of a young
person made in accordance to section 14 of the YOA. Under the YCJA,
these reports are now called pre-sentence reports. A pre-sentence report is
presented to the court for the purpose of assisting the court in determining
a sentence.
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| | Probation - Probation is a non-custodial sentence imposed by
the court. The offender is released into the community bound by conditions
of a probation order that have been stipulated by the court. There may or
may not be a requirement to report to a probation officer for supervision.
Violation of the terms of probation is a criminal offence.
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| | Probation/Parole officer- refers to a government employee (typically
in a Correctional Services Ministry or equivalent) responsible for the delivery
of community services in a jurisdiction.
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| | Restitution order - A condition requiring the offender to make
restitution for injuries or to pay compensation for loss of or damage to property
as a result of the offence.
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| | Stand alone community service order (CSO) - A stand-alone CSO
refers to orders given to a client to complete a CSO only, with no requirement
to report to a probation officer for supervision.
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| | Stand down report - A pre-disposition or pre-sentence report
given orally in court.
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| | Supervisor - A person who administers, monitors or oversees the
actual program/service. This could be a contracted person, volunteer, probation
officer or other official.
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| | Tables - Table 1-1 describes
service availability in the jurisdiction according to whether a particular
program is available universally everywhere and at all times in the jurisdiction
(without restrictions), on a limited basis (with restrictions, such as only
certain locations or subject to the availability of resources), or not available
at all.
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| | Table 6-1 identifies who is responsible
for delivering community correctional services. There can be many people involved
in the supervision of clients. First, and foremost, for the majority of jurisdictions,
clients are supervised through a probation officer. Clients granted a temporary
absence may be supervised by institutional staff. Clients can also be supervised
by someone in another government department, such as the Attorney General.
Finally, supervision services can be contracted out to non-profit organizations,
leaving the probation officer to open and close the file.
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