Note
Issued also in French under title : Les pratiques en matière d'évaluation du risqué chez les délinquants varient à l'échelle du Canada.
Preceding series, Research summary, 1996-2014, was published by volume and number sequence.
Résumé
A cornerstone of our justice system is that offenders should be treated in a fair and equitable manner. The goal of this review was to determine the extent to which the procedures for assigning risk levels vary across Canadian correctional systems, and the potential of this variation to have real-life consequences for offenders and public safety. In particular, we were interested in how risk and needs levels are defined, the extent to which there is consistency across jurisdictions, and the implications for offender rehabilitation and management.