Justice committee  Within this graphic that we're displaying, these are folks who have been returned to the correctional system within 12 months.

Justice committee  What I was trying to say is that we can only in this chart speak to those who end up back in the corrections services. We can't speak to any offences that may have been committed that don't end up back in the corrections services system. That's what we cannot speak to in this gra

Justice committee  It means breaching a condition and it also means that the breach was serious enough to result in an admission to custody.

Justice committee  One can certainly make the link that you need to offend to be involved, but you can also offend and not be involved. That's the difference. For example, one can commit an offence and not end up in the corrections service. That's the difference in these data.

Justice committee  In our court data, and Mr. Grimes can certainly add to this, we do not collect any information regarding the nature of the undertakings within the procedures. We gather information on the sentences and the natures of the offences and so forth, so to my knowledge we can't speak to

Justice committee  As Michael has said, to produce such an estimate would require making several assumptions in the data.

Justice committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for the opportunity to present to the committee regarding minimum mandatory sentencing and firearm-related offences. The data I will present today come from two main sources: data from our uniform crime reporting survey of police-reported crime incident

Justice committee  In terms of the overall trend in violent crime, our police-reported data show that there were about 304,000 violent incidents in 2005. The overall violent crime rate in 2005 was similar to the rate we saw in 2004. In general, though, after increasing fairly steadily for 30 years,

Justice committee  I will actually allow Mr. Turner to explain that, but what I believe you're referring to could be our definition and the way we collect gang-related homicide information data.

Justice committee  We can provide that.

Justice committee  If you would turn to slide 4, the gang-related information is not specifically in the slide, but this is what I spoke to when I made the presentation. Let me just repeat what we had. In 2005, we had 658 homicides. That was the second straight year of increase in homicides. That

Justice committee  This was between 2004 and 2005.

Justice committee  It was. In fact, as we have said, this may be a partial explanation overall for some of that change. As for the degree to which it's responsible for what percentage of the increase, there's no way for us to assess that.

Justice committee  In our data we cannot speak to any of the processes leading up to what charge is heard in court. What we can speak to are the charges we receive in our courts-based data, and this is what this speaks to. We have no way in our data of assessing any of the processes around those ch

Justice committee  The slide is showing the proportion with conviction for one of those 10 offences. So your question asked whether or not the 10 offences were what we were looking at here, and the answer is within this slide we were looking at just those 10 offences.