Justice committee  Not all of them proceeded by way of indictment, so it's really difficult for me to determine the seriousness of the offence.

Justice committee  I can't answer that question from these data, unfortunately.

Justice committee  Indecent assault. That would have been an old Criminal Code offence that was probably prior to the new Criminal Code statute, RSC 1985, which came into force on December 12, 1988.

Justice committee  Right, but it's based upon when the offence occurred.

Justice committee  Right on. I'm trying to link up the charge of the offence. If I had the Criminal Code charge, I'd be able to put those two together for you, but I don't know. What I can do is I can look up indecent assault and find out where it fits within those two and I can get back to the com

Justice committee  The way these data have been organized, it's based upon the UCR-2, which are the police scoring procedures. All of the statute sections, subsections, and paragraphs for chargeable sections are put into offence categories. So I can't find out that answer. I just don't have it with

Justice committee  On the guilty pleas, generally within the data set 90% of all convictions have a guilty plea, not just those with a conditional sentence.

Justice committee  On the second point, assignment of conditions, I can't speak to that from the courts' perspective. I don't know whether Mr. Martin could—

Justice committee  There are a couple of problems involved in putting those data together. First, for the vast majority of the country, there's no court data going back prior to roughly 1994-95. I wouldn't be able to put together any data related to the conviction history of those individuals, or

Justice committee  For court data it's 1994-95. There is some data prior to that, but then we're talking about a very small part of the country. We have roughly 80% going back to 1994-95.

Justice committee  For those offences in the legislative summary?

Justice committee  Yes, where there is a match; when there's a new offence and we have a new section, subsection, and paragraph, it will start at the time when we start receiving data. I'll put together what I can for you and provide it to the committee.

Justice committee  If we break down the categories, we have 27% for crimes against the person; 32% for crimes against property; 10% for administration of justice offences; 4% for other Criminal Code offences; 7% for Criminal Code traffic; and 19% for other federal statutes, which would include the

Justice committee  The other thing I can mention about the prison sentences is that this doesn't take into consideration time in custody, pre-trial custody. So the prison sentence is the prison sentence ordered at the time of a guilty finding.

Justice committee  I can't currently speak to that with these data.