Wednesday, March 14, 2018

REPORT CARD ON CANADA'S CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM

     Canada's criminal justice system is facing a litany of serious challenges including significant under-reporting of crime by victims, delays and inefficiencies, rising costs, and considerable over-representation of Indigenous people in prison, MLI Munk Senior Fellow and law professor at the UBC Peter A. Allard School of Law Benjamin Perrin and Rick Audas, health statistics and economics professor at Memorial University, said today.
     The Macdonald-Laurier Institute has released its second-edition Report Card on the Criminal Justice System, which brings these issues to light using quantitative data and a systematic approach to measuring the strengths and shortcomings of the criminal justice system in each province and territory. The report, co-authored by economist Richard Audus, enhances and updates MLI's popular initial Justice Report Card, first launched in 2016. The findings are striking.

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