Justice committee  It's police-reported crime from the UCR2. There's also victimization information from the GSS. Those are the two sources we have.

Justice committee  That's correct.

Justice committee  Yes. There are different statistics for youth in criminal court.

Justice committee  Yes, I can provide a copy of the most recent youth court Juristat to the clerk of the committee, and there's also a release in July.

Justice committee  It's not possible to go back to 1960 for criminal court statistics. The earliest for adults is 1994-95, with 80% coverage.

Justice committee  There's no recent data on repeat offenders from Statistics Canada. There is a study from about ten years ago that was a birth cohort analysis, but there's no recent study on recidivism.

Justice committee  No. Other than the birth cohort study.

Justice committee  Doing work on recidivism is something that is on our agenda. It's something we want to prepare statistics for. We have a project right now that's looking at improving how we identify people, because the real issue in doing studies on repeat offenders is making sure that you ident

Justice committee  They'll be released in July, and with that release there will be the ability to do additional work on the criminal organization offences.

Justice committee  There is a numerical value, but it's based on sentencing data. The method is to take all of the convictions for the various offences under the UCR2 violation codes—there are about 130 different violations—to track all of the convictions for those violations, identify how many wer

Justice committee  There's no way to do it for the other serious violent crimes and whether or not there are youth gangs. That's not possible, because that comes from a different data source.

Justice committee  I know one of the considerations is that over the years, impaired driving offences, as well as drug offences, have been particularly susceptible to enforcement practices, so there can be a lot of variability in those rates from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.

Justice committee  That is correct.

Justice committee  One of the additional caveats I can add is that the dates in here represent completed cases. At the time of the implementation of the YCJA, there would have been cases in the system that were still pending when the YCJA was enacted on April 1, 2003.

Justice committee  I'm not aware of a minimum for auto theft. It's not something I've researched. I know that for auto theft, in looking at the court data, the only options are sections 334 or 335, and the annotations in the code suggest that either section would be appropriate, depending on the ci