This data set is no longer compiled by the Ministry of Solicitor General. Data from the Police Reported Crime Severity Index. Measures changes in Canadian crime severity from year to year. In the index, all crimes are assigned a weight based on their seriousness, based on actual sentences handed down in all provinces and territories. Serious crimes are assigned high weights while less serious offences have lower weights. As a result, serious offences have a greater impact on changes in the index. Data is compared to the 2006 baseline. The data can be accessed from Statistics Canada.

Crime severity index (violent, non-violent, youth) and weighted clearance rates (violent, non-violent), Canada, provinces, territories and Census Metropolitan Areas, 1998 to 2024.

This presentation is an opportunity to learn about the various data sets, available through Statistics Canada’s website as well as through the Research Data Centre network, that describe the nature and characteristics of crime and victimization in Canada. Understanding how to exploit the research potential of the data sets produced by the Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety can contribute in a significant manner in the development of crime prevention programs, and are instrumental in developing evidence-based policy. The presentation will discuss how to exploit police and courts administrative records as well as new surveys related to gender based violence.

The Canadian Victims Bill of Rights (CVBR) came into force on July 23, 2015. The CBVR created statutory rights at the federal level for victims of crime. The legislation establishes statutory rights for victims of information, protection, participation, and to seek restitution. It also requires that a complaint process be established by federal departments, agencies, or bodies for alleged breaches of these rights. In July, 2015, the Department of Justice's CVBR Complaint Mechanism was established, and its related policy was approved by the Deputy Minister *DM) of Justice Canada. The complaint policy was updated in September 2016. The complaint policies state that, within six months after the end of the fiscal years (i.e. by the end of September each year), a report will be submitted to the DM that will include : the number of complaints made to the Department; how these complaints were addressed; and the average length of time to address them . The complaint policy also states that the report will be proactively disclosed on the Department of Justice Canada website. For the purposes of this report, a "complaint" is any submission which included the official form required by the Department to make a CBVR complaint (i.e. Department of Justice CVBR Complaint Form). An "enquiry" is any correspondence to the Department's CVBR Complaint Mechanism.