The Review Board Systems in Canada: An Overview of Results from the Mentally Disordered Accused Data Collection Study

Figure 2 – Offence comparison between review board cases (2003 cohort) and adult criminal court cases (2003/04)

Figure 2, horizontal bar chart representing the percentage of review board and adult criminal court case offenders charged with the following offences: murder, major assault, sexual assault, assault, other sexual offences, robbery, criminal harassment, threats, arson, break and enter and theft. [Description]

  1. The NCRMD/UST data are drawn from those accused who were transferred to a Review Board in the calendar year 2003; the ACCS data are drawn from the 2003/2004 Adult Criminal Court Survey managed by the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Statistics Canada.
  2. Approximately 9% of the offences committed by accused within NCRMD/UST cases and 64% of offences committed by accused within ACCS cases were not used in this comparison.

Long description

The Y axis lists the most serious offences for which an offender was charged. The offences listed, from top to bottom, are: murder, major assault, sexual assault, assault, other sexual offences, robbery, criminal harassment, threats, arson, break and enter and theft.

The X axis lists the percentage of cases receiving a charge for the above–listed offences. The X axis is measured in percentages and increases in increments of five from 0 to 35.

The percentage of review board and adult criminal court cases receiving charges for the above listed offences are: