Reconvictions among adults sentenced to custody or community supervision across five provincial correctional programs, 2015/2016 to 2018/2019

The three-year incidence of any reconviction was lower for men (44%) and women (37%) aged 35 and older. * The three-year incidence of any reconviction was highest for those with 10 or more prior convictions (79%), followed by those with 5 to 9 prior convictions (54%), 2 to 4 prior convictions (34%), and 0 to 1 prior convictions (19%). * For decades, academics, policy officials, and communities have called for better disaggregated data on the experiences of Indigenous (i.e., First Nations people, Métis and Inuit) and Black people in the criminal justice system. Reconvictions may contribute to over-representation in the criminal justice system as new convictions can lead to prolonged and repeated involvement with all levels of the system, from policing to corrections. * A larger proportion of Indigenous people (66%) were reconvicted within three years compared to non-lndigenous people (45%). The study cohort consists of adults sentenced to custody or community supervision across five provincial correctional programs that currently report data to the Canadian Correctional Services Survey: Nova Scotia, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia.1 Individuals included in the cohort were required to have experienced at least one of the following correctional events2 in 2015/2016: * Release from full-time custody into the community (with or without conditions); * Start of an intermittent sentence (i.e., a custody sentence that is served intermittently, such as on the weekends); or * Start of a community supervision sentence (i.e., conditional sentence or probation). Notably, more than half of the custody (68%) and community (58%) cohorts had a prior conviction for a crime against the person, which as a category includes criminal harassment, uttering threats, assault, sexual assault, offences in relation to sexual services and other sexual offences, robbery, attempted murder and homicide.