Young Innovators: Banting Fellowship leads to testing of criminal risk tools

A prestigious Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship awarded to the University of Saskatchewan will lead to nationally important research into risk assessment tools that could help courts determine whether inmates, particularly Indigenous ones, are likely to re-offend.
Indigenous peoples are overrepresented in the Canadian criminal justice system, representing 27 per cent of the federal prison population, while comprising five per cent of the total Canadian population.
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