(Conversely, a 1991 study found about a quarter of people in federal prison for sexual offences had a prior record of other sexual offences.) For youth and child victims, that falls to 16%.Īnd recidivism rates are low: According to the same study, less than 10 per cent of released provincial sex offenders were convicted of a new sexual offence in the three and a half years after release. Less than a quarter of sexual offences involve a victim who is a stranger to the perpetrator, according to a 2001 study. But most sexual offences occur among people who know each other.” People feeling vulnerable walking down the street, or vulnerable because they’re worried about their kids not coming directly home from school, that kind of thing. “What makes people anxious is stranger sexual assault. One of the reasons Ontario gave for withholding the data was that knowing how many sex offenders were living in a neighbourhood might lead to “community unease.” (A Supreme Court judge noted this isn’t a legal ground for withholding data under Ontario’s access-to-information law.)īut sex offenders don’t typically victimize people outside their immediate circles, Latimer says. A lot of them are getting dumped into homeless shelters when they’re released – it’s not good.” “They have difficulty functioning and getting jobs, so they’re lower-income people. “Most people who are reintegrating back into communities after a period in prison are not particularly wealthy,” Latimer said. The data shows sex offenders tend overwhelmingly to settle in low-income areas. A vast stretch from Kenora to Hudson Bay has Ontario’s highest rate of sex offenders – 122 out of a population of 16,347, for a rate of 746 per 100,000 residents. Northwestern Ontario has very high rates.There are clusters of sex offenders in downtown Kingston, the east end of London (in 2014, southern Ontario’s top neighbourhood for registered sex offenders was in east-central London) and Peterborough.In Ottawa, registered sex offenders concentrate in Vanier, which has 59.In 2008, the western part of central Hamilton, along York Boulevard, had southern Ontario’s densest concentration of sex offenders. Most of inner-city Hamilton has high rates of sex offenders, with about 200 living below the Mountain.There are smaller pockets in the Junction and Parkdale. In Toronto, registered sex offenders cluster in the east downtown, roughly bounded by Carlton, Jarvis, the Don Valley Parkway and the Lakeshore.James Town, South Riverdale, Leslieville and the Junction all have fewer registered sex offenders than in 2008. Rates fell in several gentrifying neighbourhoods in the older part of Toronto: the postal codes for Cabbagetown/St.Sex offender rates have risen in the Lower Town and Centretown areas of Ottawa.Update, May 14: The map now shows data for both April 2014 and May 2008. In 2009, Ontario’s correctional ministry claimed a 97% compliance rate among offenders required to register. Offenders who are pardoned can be taken off the registry. Ontario’s registry requires people convicted of various sexual offences to register their home address with police for either 10 years or life. I don’t think you gain anything by not having adequate access to information.”
“As long as it doesn’t identify individuals, it’s good,” says Catherine Latimer, executive director of the John Howard Society. “The Ministry respects the Supreme Court of Canada and is focused on keeping our communities safe as we work to comply with the Information and Privacy Commissioner’s order,” ministry spokesperson Greg Flood said in an e-mailed statement. (In the United States, sex offenders identified by address have sometimes been subject to violent attacks.) One Woodbridge postal area, for example, has more than 55,000 residents and 20 sex offenders. The province argued that publishing the data could lead to identification of registered sex offenders in the community but was never able to show how this was possible.
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