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According to the latest report of Statistics Canada, overall crime in Canada has been steadily declining since the late 1990s as measured by the Crime Severity Index (CSI) and the Violent Crime Severity Index (VCSI), with a more recent uptick since an all-time low in 2014. [3] Both measures of crime saw an 8% to 10% decrease between 2010 and ...
The representation of murdered Indigenous women in crime statistics is not proportionate to the general population. [86] In 2006, Amnesty International researched racism specific to Indigenous women in Canada. [87] They reported on the lack of basic human rights, discrimination, and violence against Indigenous women.
The 2020 General Social Survey revealed that 92% of adult Canadians said that "[ethnic] diversity is a Canadian value". [15] About 25% of Canadians were "racialized"; [2] By 2021, 23% of the Canadian population were immigrants—the "largest proportion since Confederation", according to Statistics Canada.
Statistics Canada projects that visible minorities will make up between 38.2% and 43.0% of the total Canadian population by 2041, [75] [76] compared with 26.5% in 2021. [ 77 ] [ 3 ] Among the working-age population (15 to 64 years), meanwhile, visible minorities are projected to represent between 42.1% and 47.3% of Canada's total population ...
Canada's federal government introduced a bill on Thursday aimed at addressing what the justice minister called a "shameful" over-representation of Black and indigenous people in the criminal ...
Race is one of the correlates of crime receiving attention in academic studies, government surveys, media coverage, and public concern. Research has found that social status, poverty, and childhood exposure to violent behavior are causes of the racial disparities in crime.
A Statistics Canada study published last month found higher rates of physical and mental illness, economic hardship and homelessness among Indigenous people who spent time in government care as ...
The Canadian crime victimization survey does not collect data on the ethnic origin of perpetrators, so comparisons between incidence of victimizations and incidence of charging are impossible. [13] Although aboriginal persons make up 3.6% of Canada's population, they account for 20% of Canada's prison population.