Crime and justice

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The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. Data.gov includes searchable catalogs that provide access to "raw" datasets and various tools… Read more.

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This document provides a statistical overview of corrections and conditional release within a context of trends in crime and criminal justice. A primary consideration in producing this overview was to present general statistical information in a “… Read more.

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This collection of documents contains summary statistics on corrections, facilities, costs, employees, offender population, rights and grievances, community corrections, etc. and research briefs, reports and related publications. Major focus is on… Read more.

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The Community Information Database is a free web resource developed to provide communities, researchers, and governments with access to consistent and reliable socio-economic and demographic data and information for all communities across Canada. It… Read more.

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This resource provides access to the 1944 through 2000 County and City Data Books. This service provides the opportunity to create custom printouts and/or customized data subsets (subsets only available for 1988-2000). The data presented for the… Read more.

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A list of country rankings based on indicators that try to measure different characteristics of countries around the world. Most of these rankings are ongoing and recurring. Be careful when using these indexes because they often measure qualities… Read more.

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The CIS-2008 marks the third cycle of this national child maltreatment data collection. The CIS-2008 data was gathered from 114 child welfare agencies/offices in every Canadian province and territory. The study employed a similar methodology to the… Read more.

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The CIRI Human Rights Dataset contains standards-based quantitative information on government respect for 15 internationally recognized human rights for 195 countries, annually from 1981-2010. Contains measures of government human rights… Read more.

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The National Centre for Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains (NCMPUR Operations) of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) is Canada's national centre that assists law enforcement, medical examiners and chief coroners with missing… Read more.

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Report including summary statistics from the United Nations Office on Drug Crime's Afghanistan Opium Survey 2010. PDF format.