Justice Statistics Beyond 20/20 Tables
This reference tool contains electronic data tables illustrating current and historical data from a number of Statistics Canada surveys. The database shows data on crime, police administration, adult and youth court activity, the correctional population and transition homes, as well as various issues such as criminal victimization and family violence.
Data collected from the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey are disseminated as crime statistics in the tables ps_*.zip .
Data will no longer be produced to identify secure and open custody.
A number of tables have been terminated but the data are still available through existing tables. To see which tables have been terminated, please consult the listing at the end of the active tables.
This reference tool contains electronic data tables illustrating current and historical data from a number of Statistics Canada surveys. The database shows data on crime, police administration, adult and youth court activity, the correctional population and transition homes, as well as various issues such as criminal victimization and family violence.
This data will replace all the justice statistics that was previously found under Criminal Justice at a Glance and Quickstat Justice Collection.
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How to cite this data:
Justice statistics Beyond 2020 tables [electronic resource]. Table 1, Adult criminal court. Type of court decision and conviction rage, 1994/95 to 1999/00. Ottawa : Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Statistics Canada, [*8 rec.] 2001
Tables
- Adult Correctional Services Survey
- Adult Criminal Court Survey
- Homicide Survey
- Legal Aid Survey
- Police Administration Survey
- Transition Home Survey
- Uniform Crime Reporting Survey
- Victim Services Survey
- Youth Court Survey
- Youth Custody and Community Service
Adult Correctional Services Survey
Adult Correctional Services Survey and Integrated Correctional Services Survey, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics (CCJS), Statistics Canada. Fiscal year (April 1 through March 31). Due to rounding, figures may not add to totals. These data are administrative data. Although the surveys attempt to standardize the way in which status changes are counted, limitations due to differences among jurisdictional operations may restrict uniform application of the definitions in some situations. For this reason, inter-jurisdictional comparisons of the data should be made with caution. Nevertheless, as a result of consistent counting practices within jurisdictions over time, statements may be made about the trends within each jurisdiction.
Adult Criminal Court Survey
The objective of the Adult Criminal Court Survey (ACCS) is to produce a national database of statistical information on charges, cases and persons involving accused who are 18 years or older at the time of offence, companies, as well as youths who have been transferred to adult criminal court. The survey is intended to be a census of federal statute charges heard in provincial and superior criminal courts in Canada. It includes information on the age and sex of the accused, case decision patterns, sentencing information regarding the length of prison and probation, and amount of fine, as well as case-processing data such as case elapsed time and number of appearances per charge. These data on federal statute charges heard in adult criminal courts in the reference period are collected by the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics (CCJS) in collaboration with provincial and territorial government departments responsible for adult criminal courts. The data are collected to respond to the needs of the provincial/territorial and federal departments of justice and attorneys-general, researchers and policy analysts, academics and the media, as well as to inform the public how adults are dealt with by adult provincial/territorial criminal courts in Canada.
Adult criminal courts in ten provinces and three territories report to the ICCS/ACCS. Reporting jurisdictions include: Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut. In addition, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Alberta, British Columbia, the Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut reported superior court data to the ICCS/ACCS. These thirteen jurisdictions represent approximately 98% of the national adult criminal court caseload.
Homicide Survey
The Homicide Survey has been the primary mechanism for the collection of national statistics on homicide in Canada since 1961. Information on the number and rates of homicide, types and circumstances of homicide offences as well as the characteristics of victims and accused involved is provided by all police forces in whose jurisdiction a homicide occurs.
Information related to homicide is available by respondent, by census metropolitan area, by province/territory and for Canada as a whole. This information is used to examine trends in homicides as well as characteristics of homicide incidents, such as age and gender of accused and victims, accused-victim relationships, and types of weapons.
Legal Aid Survey
The Legal Aid Survey has been conducted annually since 1983-84, by the Courts Program, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics. The objective of this census survey is to provide revenue, expenditure, personnel, and caseload statistics associated with the delivery and administration of legal aid in Canada.
Data are collected and presented at the aggregate provincial/territorial level.
Police Administration Survey
Data collected from the annual Police Administration Survey conducted by the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics (CCJS) provided the raw data for this product.
Although the survey collects information from all police forces in Canada, this report contains summary information on Canada's municipal police forces which employ nearly two thirds of all police officers in Canada and account for around 55 % of the cost of policing services. In this report, municipal policing includes contract policing by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in seven provinces, by the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) in Ontario and by the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary (RNC) in Newfoundland.
Transition Home Survey
The Transition Home Survey is conducted as part of the federal government's Family Violence Initiative. The survey is a biennial census of all known residential facilities for abused women in Canada.
The survey data includes annual admissions, a profile of facilities, the types of services provided to residents, ex-residents and non-residents and a profile of the residents and their children. Data on the characteristics of the facilities and the services dispensed during the previous 12 months and a one-day snapshot of the characteristics of women and children residing in shelters on April 17, 2000 is also included.
Uniform Crime Reporting Survey
The Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics (CCJS), in co-operation with the policing community, collects police-reported crime statistics through the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (UCR). The UCR Survey was designed to measure the incidence of crime in Canadian society and its characteristics.
UCR data reflect reported crime that has been substantiated by police. Information collected by the survey includes the number of criminal incidents, the clearance status of those incidents and persons-charged information. The UCR Survey produces a continuous historical record of crime and traffic statistics reported by every police agency in Canada since 1962. In 1988, a new version of the survey was created, UCR2, and is since referred to as the "incident-based" survey, in which microdata on characteristics of incidents, victims and accused are captured.
There are two versions of the UCR collection instrument that are operating simultaneously: UCR Aggregate (UCR1.0) Survey and the UCR2 Incident-based Survey, which is comprised of three versions, UCR2.0, UCR2.1, and UCR2.2.
The UCR Aggregate Survey (UCR1.0) collects summary data for nearly 100 separate criminal offences and has been in place since 1962.
In order to collect more detailed information on each incident, victims and accused persons, the UCR2 Survey was developed in the mid-1980's. This alternative method of data collection in which a separate statistical record is created for each criminal incident is known as an "incident-based" reporting system. The first respondent reported incident-based data in 1988.
A revised version of the UCR2 survey known as UCR2.1 was introduced in 1998. This survey introduced certain efficiencies for police services and lowered response burden by eliminating or simplifying UCR2 variables. Then, in 2005, another version named UCR 2.2 was introduced to take into account new violations/variables (not processed separately in the past) such as organized crime, cyber crime, hate crime and geocode information.
UCR1 Aggregate Survey
UCR 2.2 Incident-based Survey
Victim Services Survey
The objective of this survey is to collect information on victim service agencies that provided services directly to primary or secondary victims of crime during the 12-month reference period, as well as to provide a one-day snapshot of clientele being served on a specific date. Information on activities by criminal injuries compensation/financial benefit programs during the 12-month reference period is also collected.
Youth Court Survey
The objective of the Youth Court Survey (YCS) is to produce a national database of statistical information on charges, cases and persons involving accused who are aged 12 to 17 years (up to the 18th birthday) at the time of offence. The survey is intended to be a census of federal statute charges heard in youth courts in Canada. It includes information on the age and sex of the accused, case decision patterns, sentencing information regarding the length of prison and probation, and amount of fine, as well as case-processing data such as case elapsed time. These data on federal statute charges heard in youth courts in the reference period are collected by the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics (CCJS) in collaboration with provincial and territorial government departments responsible for youth courts. The data are collected to respond to the needs of the provincial/territorial and federal departments of justice and attorneys-general, researchers and policy analysts, academics and the media, as well as to inform the public how youth are dealt with by youth courts in Canada.
Youth Custody & Community Service
Youth Custody and Community Services survey generates data in order to provide information to the justice community on the nature and extent of youth corrections and community services for young offenders and to inform the public.
The YCCS covers all occurrences relating to a youth who has commenced an uninterrupted period of time serving either a custodial and/or community-based disposition. It also collects information on youths being held in remand (non-sentenced custody while awaiting trial, sentencing, or transfer to and from an institution).
Documentation
- Beyond 20/20 Quickstart Guide
- Uniform Crime Reporting - 2005 Canada/Province/CMA Notes
- Uniform Crime Report Survey - 2005 Respondent Notes
- Adult Correctional Services Survey - 2004-2005 Mandatory Reading
- Table 1 - Adult correctional services, admissions to provincial, territorial and federal programs
- Table 2 - Adult correctional services, admissions to provincial and territorial programs
- Table 3 - Adult correctional services, admissions to federal programs
- Table 4 - Adult correctional services, average counts of offenders in provincial, territorial and federal programs
- Table5 - Adult correctional services, average counts of offenders in provincial and territorial programs
- Table 6 - Adult correctional services, average counts of offenders in federal programs
- Table 7 - Adult correctional services, operating expenditures for provincial, territorial and federal programs
- Table 1 - Adult correctional services, admissions to provincial, territorial and federal programs
Terminated Tables
- CrimeCma.zip (.ivt) Census Metropolitan Areas, 1991 to 2000.
- CrimeMun.zip (.ivt) Municipal Police Forces, 1977 to 2000.
- CrimePrv.zip (.ivt) Canada, Provinces and Territories, 1977 to 2000.
- PSresp_T.zip (.ivt) Traffic Offences, All Respondents, 1986 to 2000.
- PS_can_T.zip (.ivt) Traffic Offences, Canada, Provinces and Territories, 1986 to 2000.
- PS_cma_T.zip (.ivt) CMA - Traffic Offences, 1991 to 2000.
- ths001.zip (ivt) Number of Shelters Operating and Responding to the Transition Home Survey by Province and Territory, 1998/2000.
- ths002.zip (ivt) Number of Shelters Operating and Responding to the Transition Home Survey by Facility Type, 1998 /2000.
- ths003.zip (ivt) In-house Services Provided by Shelters to Children Residents, Ex-residents and Non-residents, 1998/2000.
- ths004.zip (ivt) Reason(s) for Admission to Shelters of Women Residents, 1998/2000.
- ths005.zip (ivt) Number of Women and their Children Residing in Shelters and the Reason(s) for Admission by Facility Type, 1998/2000.
- ths006.zip (ivt) Number of Women and their Children Residing in Shelters and the Reason(s) for Admission by Province and Territory, 1998/2000.
- ths007.zip (ivt) In-house Services Provided by Shelters to Women Residents, Ex-residents and Non-residents, 1998/2000.
- ths008.zip (ivt) Characteristics of Abused Women Residing in Shelters by Age, Parental Status, Disability and Relationship to Abuser, 1998/2000.
- ths009.zip (ivt) Involvement of the Criminal Justice System by Province and Territory, 1998/2000.
- ths010.zip (ivt) Rate of Women in Shelters, Admitted for Reasons of Abuse, Province and Territory, 1998/2000.
- ths011.zip (ivt) Requests for Services Received by Shelters from Ex-residents and Non-residents, 1998/2000.
- ths012.zip (ivt) Annual Admissions to Shelters by Province and Territory, 1998/2000.
- YCSrecid.zip (.ivt) Recidivism Data from 1990/91 to 1999/00 (case based).
- ycsmss.ivt Youth Court Survey- Cases by Most Serious Sentence, 1991/92 to 2002/03
- ps_resp.ivt Crime statistics, All Police Services, 1977 to 2005
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Updated September 9, 2009
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