CANADA - PAROLE RECIDIVISM STUDY - ONE-YEAR FOLLOW-UP OF 1970 PENITENTIARY PAROLE RELEASES

• NCJ Number: 14256
• Author(s): ANON
• Date Published: 1973
• Length: 27 pages
• Corporate Author: Canada Solicitor General
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/
• Publication Type: Statistics
• Language: French; English
• Country: Canada

Annotation

A STATISTICAL PRESENTATION OF RECIDIVISM PATTERNS FOR CANADIAN PAROLEES RELEASED DURING 1970, SHOWING INCREASING RECIDIVISM RATES SINCE 1963.

Abstract

FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS STUDY, RECIDIVISM IS CONSIDERED TO REPRESENT A REVOCATION OR FORFEITURE OF PAROLE OR CONVICTION FOR AN INDICTABLE OFFENSE FOLLOWING RELEASE ON PAROLE WITHIN THE 5-YEAR FOLLOW-UP PERIOD. DATA IS PRESENTED IN TABULAR FORM. INCLUDED IN THE TABLES ARE STATISTICS ON ORDINARY AND MINIMUM PAROLE RELEASES, TYPE OF RECIDIVISM BY TIME ELAPSED AFTER RELEASE, ACCUMULATIVE TOTALS FOR TYPE OF RECIDIVISM BY TIME ELAPSED AFTER RELEASE, AND RECIDIVISM AND PAROLE STATUS AT TIME OF RECIDIVISM, BY TIME PERIOD. --IN FRENCH AND ENGLISH