Research in Brief (Correctional Service Canada)

Uses the Women’s Computerized Assessment of Substance Abuse (W-CASA) to provide statistics on those who reported using opioids versus those who used other types of substances in the twelve months prior to arrest.

Examined pattern and impact of conditions imposed on 1,351 federal Indigenous and non-Indigenous offenders on their first conditional release between April 2013 and March 2017.

Uses statistics from the CSC’s Corporate Reporting System-Modernized (CRS-M) to establish 5 five-year trend of flows in and out of federal custody.

Sample of 46 offenders during incarceration between Dec. 27, 2017 and March 13, 2020. Data included demographic, sentence, and offence information, institutional behaviour, and post-release outcomes, as well as operational accommodation preferences and abuse and trauma histories

Uses statistics from the Women’s Computerized Assessment of Substance Abuse (W-CASA) with a sample of 908 federally sentenced women for the period between November 2016 and January 2019.