Community Corrections Client Releases in British Columbia, 2008-2024

Government of British Columbia data on community corrections client releases from fiscal year 2008-09 to 2023-24. The dataset includes breakdowns by region, ethnicity, supervision document type, most serious offence, and flags for spousal abuse and sex offender status. It is available in CSV and HTML formats under the OGL-CA-2.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyzing trends in community corrections releases over a 16-year period based on fiscal year data.
• Studying disparities in release outcomes based on ethnicity and region mentioned in the description.
• Investigating the relationship between most serious offence (MSO) and supervision document type.
• Profiling populations with spousal abuse or sex offender flags for targeted program evaluation.

Strengths

• Covers a 16-year time range from fiscal year 2008-09 to 2023-24.
• Includes multiple breakdown dimensions such as region, ethnicity, and offence type.
• Published by the Government of British Columbia, an authoritative source.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• Data may reflect geographic and institutional bias inherent to a single Canadian province.

Provenance

Source

Government of British Columbia

Collection Method

Administrative records from community corrections systems.

Time Range

Fiscal years 2008-09 to 2023-24

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-17 15:27:06.791619; freshness should be verified.

Geography

British Columbia, Canada