Indigenous Resources - Background, Policy, Analysis: Corrections/Crime/Victims/Offenders

"CSC's broad research portfolio includes projects in areas like:
-Offender population profiles
-Mental health issues – screening, population profiles and treatment
-Women and Aboriginal offender needs
-Institutional and community operations and security...
We use quantitative and qualitative methodological approaches, including data analysis and interviews with staff and offenders. Our studies can involve a quick, data-driven profile or can consist of a multi-year and multi-phase research study. Our research often involves CSC staff from national and regional headquarters, community sites and institutions."

"This Juristat article provides an overview of adult and youth correctional services in Canada in 2017/2018.... The use of correctional services is described using three measures: average counts, admissions and initial entries. Average counts provide a snapshot of the correctional population and represent the number of adults and youth in custody or under community supervision on any given day. Admissions are counted each time an individual begins or moves to a new type of custody or
community supervision over the fiscal year: the same person can be included numerous times in the admissions count, as he/she move from one type of supervision to another. As such, the count of admissions provides an important indicator of the
flow of persons through the correctional system for a given year. For youth specifically, initial entries represent the number of youth entering the correctional system for a period of supervision...
The measures presented in this article provide an overview of the current state of correctional populations and the workload of correctional services in Canada, and highlight changes over time. This Juristat article also provides information regarding
the characteristics of persons admitted in order to identify those most represented in the correctional system. This information aims to bring to light how correctional populations have changed, and highlight matters in need of further consideration. "

"...an in-depth analysis on the experiences of inappropriate behaviours in public, online and at work, as well as information on experiences and characteristics of violent victimization. Using data from the 2018 Survey of Safety in Public and Private Spaces, this gender-based analysis fills a critical gap by measuring behaviours that have not previously been a focus of other surveys...." Indigenous identity is one of the categories.

"The overrepresentation of Indigenous people in custody is a serious challenge that confronts Canada’s justice system. One factor that may contribute to this overrepresentation is a higher rate of guilty pleas among Indigenous people. The Research and Statistics Division at the Department of Justice Canada interviewed justice system professionals to explore the circumstances under which Indigenous people plead guilty."

Includes information about healing lodges - How offenders are placed in a healing lodge, How healing lodges are managed, History of healing lodges, more specific information about the different lodges (such as Okimaw Ohci Healing Lodge and O-Chi-Chak-Ko-Sipi Healing Lodge), and Process to transfer an inmate to a healing lodge.

Includes information about Indigenous Peoples (also specific categories for Indigenous men and Indigenous women.)

"This fact sheet uses data from the 2014 General Social Survey (GSS) on Victimization....Every five
years, the GSS on Criminal Victimization presents data on Canadians aged 15 years and older who report having been victimized in the previous twelve months. For comparison’s sake, the survey focuses on eight specific categories of crime: sexual assault, robbery, physical assault, theft of
personal property, break and enter, theft of motor vehicle or parts, theft of household property, and vandalism. This fact sheet also uses data from special studies conducted by the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics at Statistics Canada, Statistics Canada’s Homicide Survey, and the correctional
surveys from Statistics Canada: Adult Correctional Services Survey (ACS); Integrated Correctional Services Survey (ICSS); and Canadian Correctional Services Survey (CCSS). "

From the report: "In concrete terms, the mandate consisted of assessing whether the treatment of Indigenous peoples in the delivery of public services was marked by violence or discriminatory practices. The underlying question was to determine whether Indigenous peoples were treated differently by public services due to their distinctive characteristics, and whether this generated injustices, particularly with respect to the services provided, and hindered them in exercising their rights. It was also important to establish whether such observations stemmed from isolated acts or were the result of systemic ways of acting and of thinking, i.e. rooted in the organizations and fuelled by their operating logic...."

"This chapter of Women in Canada explores the criminal victimization of women and girls as well as their involvement in the criminal justice system as offenders. It covers the types of criminal victimization experienced by females over time, highlighting important differences in violent crime by Aboriginal identity, immigrant status, visible minority status, and age. The use of formal and informal support services is explored, including changes over time in the use of police services."

"CSC's broad research portfolio includes projects in areas like:
-Offender population profiles
-Mental health issues – screening, population profiles and treatment
-Women and Aboriginal offender needs
-Institutional and community operations and security...
We use quantitative and qualitative methodological approaches, including data analysis and interviews with staff and offenders. Our studies can involve a quick, data-driven profile or can consist of a multi-year and multi-phase research study. Our research often involves CSC staff from national and regional headquarters, community sites and institutions."