Aimed at reducing the opportunities to commit crime and victimization (Clarke, 1995). Examples include closed circuit television (CCTV), environmental and product design.

A family that has an accumulation and interaction of risk factors, including such things as: inadequate and ineffective parental practices, parental and/or sibling criminality, family violence, parent [..]

Persons who reported identifying with at least one Aboriginal group, that is, North American Indian, Métis or Inuit, and/or those who reported being a Treaty Indian or a Registered Indian, as defined [..]

Also known as Indians. The First Nations is a group made up of 633 First Nations Bands, representing 52 nations or cultural groups, and more than 50 languages. The First Nations is one of three distin [..]

Today, the term is used broadly to describe people with mixed First Nations and European ancestry who identify themselves as Métis, distinct from Indian people, Inuit, or non-Aboriginal people (Métis [..]

An Aboriginal people in Northern Canada, who live in Nunavut, Northwest Territories, Northern Quebec and Northern Labrador. The word means "people" in the Inuit language - Inuktitut. The sin [..]

Actions taken or work performed through which inputs, such as funds, technical assistance and other types of resources are mobilized to produce specific outputs (Organisation for Economic Co-operation [..]

Behaviour that transgresses the accepted morals and norms of behaviour of a given society without being necessarily criminal. For example, the UK has included nuisance neighbours; rowdy and nuisance b [..]

Individuals who are exposed to multiple risk factors that increase the likelihood that those individuals will commit delinquent or criminal acts (Wilson, 2000). Other definitions of risk include the h [..]

A concise statement of financial assets, liabilities, and equity at a particular point in time, usually at the end of the fiscal year (Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, 2002). (See also: Cash flow [..]