Black people in criminal courts in Canada: An exploration using the relative rate index

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to acknowledge the significant contribution of the Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics at Statistics Canada to this study. Specifically, we wish to thank Sun Te and Youssouf Azmi who assisted in developing the methodology and conducted the data manipulations to generate the Relative Rate Index data. Thanks are also extended to Zoran Miladinovic, Andrea Taylor-Butts and Joel Roy who provided further data manipulation support and thoughtful comments on the report.

The authors would also like to acknowledge the contributions of Dr. Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto, who reviewed the report and provided insightful comments to ensure that the findings were appropriately contextualized to understand the broader experiences of Black people in Canada.

Finally, the authors are grateful to their colleagues in the Research and Statistics Division and at Justice Canada more broadly for reviewing the report and providing excellent insight.