I'm not sure whether every Provincial Justice service does this, but in
Manitoba, the Attorney General collects data on educational attainment for
every remanded person. I've asked them for it in the past and they have
been willing to send the 1-2 page report on the data collected.
The relationship between education attainment and remand and custody is
pretty shocking - The last table I'd received was for 2003. It demonstrated
the following for those in custody: Of the 586 in adult custody, 68% were
aboriginal. For the aboriginal, 74% of those had grade 10 or less. 23% had
grades 11 or 12, 1.3% had entered into post secondary education at some
point and not one aboriginal person was in sentenced custody with university
or college graduation.
For the non aboriginal population in sentenced custody, 45% had grade 10 or
less, a further 45% had grade 11 or 12, 4% had entered into post secondary
education at some point and 3.7% were people who had achieved university or
college graduation.
Basically, all rolled together, in Manitoba in 2003, of 586 people in
sentenced custody, those who got past grade 12 and did some other kind of
training represented 19 people in total or about 3%.
If somebody wanted more current figures, I'm sure Attorneys General
departments in Canada must collect such data.
Separate studies by the Manitoba by the Centre for Health policy have looked
at the relationship between socioeconomic influences - neighborhood of
residence and impact on health and school performance. Current research is
focused on the influence of age of mother at birth. The study is on their
website at the following location:
http://www.umanitoba.ca/centres/mchp/reports/child_inequalities/Summary_Repo
rts/CH_Atlas_for_web_July_9.pdf
Interestingly enough, comparisons for weight at birth and apgar scores shoed
they were not born unequal as much as they were becoming seriously unequal
by grade three and worsening up to grade 12. Graduation rates ran from
under 25% for the lowest class neighborhoods to 90% for the highest and
mortality rates are pretty closely matching the gradient.
-----Original Message-----
From: Social Determinants of Health [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Dennis Raphael
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 8:08 AM
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Subject: [SDOH] request: crime, income, poverty
There is a lot of interest in crime in Toronto lately -- especially
homicide, and an opening to demonstrate the close correspondence between
crime rates and income/poverty.
Do any Canadian subscribers have access to graphs/maps/charts that show
such correspondence?
Thanks,
dennis
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