Black people are overrepresented in Canada's criminal justice system as both victims and people accused
or convicted of crime. This fact sheet presents a statistical overview of the key areas of overrepresentation
of Black people at different stages of the criminal justice system.
National disaggregated data on the racialized identity of those who come in contact with the criminal
justice system remain fairly limited and underreported. However, some information is available and
presented in the current fact sheet. The data presented are drawn from Statistics Canada’s Canadian Centre
for Justice and Community Safety Statistics (CCJCSS), the Department of Justice Canada’s Research and
Statistics Division (RSD), the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC), and the Office of the Correctional
Investigator (OCI)