This statistic shows the distribution of offenders in federal correctional services in Canada in the fiscal year of 2022, by category of offense and aboriginal status. In the fiscal year of 2022, 4.6 percent of Indigenous offenders in federal correctional services in Canada were serving a sentence for a Murder I offense.
Distribution of offenders in federal correctional services in Canada in FY 2022, by category of offense and indigenous status
The Canadian government fiscal year runs from April 1 through March 31.
Murder I is planned and deliberate murder, murder of a peace officer, contracted murder, murder during a hijacking, sexual assault, kidnapping, criminal harassment, terrorist activity, intimidation, or affiliation with a criminal organization.
Murder II is all murders not classified under Murder I.
Schedule I crimes are all sexual offenses and violent crimes not classified under Murder I or II.
Schedule II crimes are serious drug offenses or conspiracy to commit serious drug offenses.
Non-schedule crimes are all other crimes not classified under Murder I, II, or Schedule I, II.
Adapted from Statistics Canada, Corrections and Conditional Release 2022, page 102, FY 2022. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
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