Distributed by the Government of Canada Depository Services Program. "Statistics Canada cat. no. 85-004-X." Also published in French under title: La mesure de la criminalité au Canada : présentation de l'Indice de gravité de la criminalité et des améliorations au Programme de déclaration uniforme de la criminalité.

Introduction -- Crime severity index -- Comparing police-reported crime statistics and victimization data -- Improvements to police-reported crime data -- Conclusion -- Statistical tables.

This report introduces the Crime Severity Index, a new tool for measuring police-reported crime in Canada that for the first time tracks changes in the severity of crime, not just volume. It also examines how crime is measured in Canada, as well as recent improvements to statistics on crime that are gathered from the police.