Youth Justice Admissions by Most Serious Offence and Region

Admissions data for youth custody, detention, and community sentences in Ontario, categorized by the most serious offence. Records are organized by fiscal year, four former administrative regions, offence severity ranking, and offence categories. The dataset provides total counts for each combination of these dimensions.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in most serious offence categories across fiscal years to identify shifts in youth crime patterns.
• Compare total admission counts between the central, eastern, northern, and western regions to assess geographic disparities.
• Examine the distribution of admissions by severity ranking within specific offence categories.
• Model the relationship between fiscal year, region, and offence category to forecast future admission volumes.

Strengths

• Data is structured by multiple key dimensions including fiscal year, four distinct regions, and offence severity.
• Records the most serious offence for each admission, providing a standardized measure of case severity.
• Provided by the Government of Ontario, indicating an official administrative source.

Limitations

• Sample size and row count are unknown, limiting assessment of statistical power.
• Geographic coverage is limited to the four former youth justice service divisions of Ontario.
• Data granularity is at the aggregated count level, not individual case records.

Provenance

Source

Government of Ontario

Collection Method

Administrative records of youth admissions to custody, detention, and community sentences.

Time Range

Organized by fiscal year; specific range unknown.

Freshness

Last updated March 2026, indicating recent maintenance.

Geography

Ontario, Canada, segmented into central, eastern, northern, and western regions.