JustFacts: Overrepresentation of Black People in the Canadian Criminal Justice System

Black people are overrepresented in Canada's criminal justice system as both victims and people accused or convicted of crime. This fact sheet presents a statistical overview of the key areas of overrepresentation of Black people at different stages of the criminal justice system. National disaggregated data on the racialized identity of those who come in contact with the criminal justice system remain fairly limited and underreported. However, some information is available and presented in the current fact sheet. The data presented are drawn from Statistics Canada’s Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics (CCJCSS), the Department of Justice Canada’s Research and Statistics Division (RSD), the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC), and the Office of the Correctional Investigator (OCI)

Publisher

Department of Justice Canada

Resources

4

Catalogue metadata updated

2023-05-17