State of the Criminal Justice System Dashboard
Indigenous Peoples
Welcome to the Indigenous Peoples theme of the State of the Criminal Justice System Dashboard. This section of the Dashboard presents information on the interaction of First Nations, Inuit and Métis with the criminal justice system. Although the information and data are presented in the Dashboard together as one group, Indigenous peoples in Canada are not one single population with one single voice. Instead, they have distinct nations with different histories, cultures, identities, knowledges, belief, languages, understandings of the world, and social experiences. Where possible, a distinction-based approach is used to present information about different nations of Indigenous peoples. However, most of the statistical data that is currently available is only available on Indigenous peoples together as one group.
On this page of the Dashboard you can look at information either by:
- Clicking on one of the nine outcomes listed below to learn about related indicators and to explore the data currently available by Indigenous and non-Indigenous identity.
- Clicking on Learn more about what contributes to overrepresentation of Indigenous people in the criminal justice system.