Youth Reoffending Counts by Fiscal Year and Ontario Region

Government of Ontario data tracks youth who re-offend within two years of completing a community disposition or custody sentence. The dataset is organized by fiscal year of completion, region, sentence type, and re-offend status, providing total counts for tracked individuals. It is not representative of all youth served by Youth Justice Services.

Use Cases

• Analyze re-offend rates by region (central, eastern, northern, western) to assess geographic disparities in youth justice outcomes.
• Compare re-offend frequencies between sentence type categories (custody order or probation order) for program evaluation.
• Track total count trends across fiscal year of completion to measure longitudinal changes in recidivism.
• Model the binary re-offend outcome using region and sentence type as predictive features.

Strengths

• Data is structured by four key dimensions: fiscal year, region, sentence type, and re-offend status.
• Provides specific temporal criteria, tracking re-offenses within two years of sentence completion.
• Sourced from the authoritative Government of Ontario, indicating official administrative data.

Limitations

• The dataset only includes tracked youth and is explicitly noted as not representative of the entire youth justice population.
• Sample size and row count are unknown, limiting assessment of statistical power.
• Geographic coverage is limited to the four former youth justice services division regions of Ontario.

Provenance

Source

Government of Ontario

Collection Method

Administrative tracking of youth who completed a youth community disposition or custody sentence.

Time Range

Organized by fiscal year of completion.

Freshness

Last updated March 25, (2026).

Geography

Ontario, Canada, segmented into four former youth justice regions: central, eastern, northern, western.