Justice committee  First of all, I'd like to be very clear in what we're presenting in chart 16, the last chart of the presentation. It looks at reinvolvement with the corrections system after a sentence has been served, and it looks at reinvolvement within a period of twelve months. That's what th

Justice committee  From our data we have a total count of the conditional sentences in 2003-04 that were crimes-against-person convictions. We can give you the number; just over 3,600 of the conditional sentences were awarded for crimes against persons. That is over a total of 13,267, so it's just

Justice committee  These are our courts data, so there are some exclusions. We cover about 70% of the national criminal court workload, so we have about 70% coverage. It's really important to make the point here that the 4,800, let's say, individuals are those who would have been convicted of one

Justice committee  We can't answer that particular question with our data set. Our information on breaches is what you've seen from slide 15. For those jurisdictions, New Brunswick and Saskatchewan, where we have the data, we're able to look at the breaches that resulted in an admission to custod

Justice committee  In our court's data program, we do not have an aboriginal identifier, so we are unable to conduct the court's analysis for aboriginal and non-aboriginal populations. Michael has presented some data from the correctional services program, and he can perhaps speak to the availabil

Justice committee  We have been collecting data on police-reported crimes since the early sixties.

Justice committee  There are a few points in response to your question. That's a very difficult definitive number to be able to provide. In our analysis to date within slide 12 that you referred to, what we did was take the Bill C-9 Criminal Code listed offences that were at the end of the legisla

Justice committee  We haven't specifically looked at the crime rates internationally in that context.

Justice committee  There are several factors that we were not able to take into account when conducting the analysis. Prior conviction history, as I mentioned, is one that we are not able to take into account. In interpreting the results of this graphic, one has to be cautious in the fact of keepi

Justice committee  Before letting Mr. Martin reply to that, I can say that we can provide a little information from the correctional services data that we have, but we're not able to conduct that analysis within our courts data program.

Justice committee  If I understood the question you posed, within this graphic that you see on page 16, we were not able to take into account any prior conviction history within these populations. These were those who left correctional supervision in 2003-2004 after having served the type of senten

Justice committee  What I can do is refer you to a few things you'll find in your presentation package. If you look at chart 12, the heading on chart 12--I'm making the asumption that they're not all numbered there--almost one-third of conditional sentences imposed for a Bill C-9 listed offence..

Justice committee  I certainly can't speak to the eventual impact of the bill, but what I can speak to is the data that you see in the final slide. These data for the four jurisdictions that are presented here do speak to re-involvement after a sentence has been served, but in doing the analysis, w

Justice committee  What we're saying is that 32% of sexual assault offences, upon conviction, resulted in conditional sentences. Sorry, other sexual offences--yes, you're right.

Justice committee  We can't provide a definitive answer to that question. There are many assumptions one would have to make around how the proceedings would take place. We can't provide a definitive answer to that.