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Public Safety Canada’s National Office for Victims (NOV) provides information and referrals to victims of crime where the offender has been convicted and received a federal sentence of two years or more. The office is always seeking new ways of reaching communities in order to:

• inform them of their rights under the Canadian Victims Bill of Rights Act; and
• share information regarding federal corrections and conditional release.

An important part of their mandate is to write, publish and distribute information products to help victims understand and navigate the federal corrections and conditional release system in Canada. In 2022, NOV released the Victims of Crime: Staying Informed book in Atikamekw. This booklet is also available in 20 other languages, including:

English ● French ● Denesuline ● Innu ● Inuktitut ● Mi’kmaq ● Ojibway ● Oji-Cree ● Plain Cree ● Arabic Cantonese ● Italian ● Spanish ● Korean ● Mandarin ● Farsi ● Tagalog ● Urdu ● Punjabi ● Russian

In 2021, the office also released a booklet online entitled “Sentence Calculation – An Explanation of the Basics of Sentence Calculation with Examples” with five Fact Sheets that explain the basic sentence calculation rules for federal offenders.

Other publications available online and in hard copy, free of change, include:

●  An Information Guide to Assist Victims

●  Helping Victims Prepare for the Release of a Federal Offender

●  Overview of Federal Corrections and Criminal Justice – Victim-Centred Information and Assistance

To order free hardcopies of any of these publications, please complete this publication form.