ICPC presents four new reports on crime in the Greater Montréal Area. These analyses offer key data to better understand local realities and strengthen crime prevention strategies.
The publication of these reports was made possible with the support of the ministère de la Sécurité publique du Québec (Québec Ministry of Public Security) and the City of Montréal.
The 2nd edition of the ICPC Summer School, taking place on August 26–27, 2025, in Montreal, will focus on the erosion of trust in key institutions. The event will bring together experts, institutional representatives, community actors, and researchers to reflect collectively on the causes of this mistrust and to identify possible avenues for action.
An increasing rate of crimes against the person was observed in the Longueuil agglomeration between 2018 and 2022. Also, over the same period, it was noted that young women were the most numerous victims of crime in private spaces, and that young people aged 12 to 17 accounted for the highest number of victims in schools.
These examples of analyzed observations of crime in the agglomeration have encouraged the need to strengthen collaboration between the various local stakeholders, such as the police, public institutions and community organizations, to put in place coordinated and effective prevention measures. Through the Government of Canada’s Building Safer Communities Fund (BSCF), contributed in part to the Government of Quebec under an agreement, the City of Longueuil appointed the ICPC to support it in conducting a local safety audit. The purpose of this report is to provide an overview of safety among youth in the Longueuil agglomeration and to encourage community participation in safety issues.
Achieved through a collaborative approach favouring positive and sustainable transformation as well as through space syntax approach, the report provides a quantitative analysis based on police data provided by the Urban agglomeration of Longueuil Police Service. The report also presents a qualitative analysis, which was carried out in collaboration with local stakeholders, involving consultative activities with young people in the territory. Finally, the study features concrete recommendations and solutions, appropriate and adapted to local realities, to strengthen and create safer public spaces.
The report is divided into 4 sections:
Today, despite the massive use of social networks, which can lead young girls and boys to gravitate more and more towards delinquency networks, we can say that poor acquaintances, the need for recognition, poverty and the lack of opportunities for young people to engage in legitimate activities are determining factors in the enrolment of young people in criminal activities.
This growing scourge has led the International Centre for the Prevention of Crime to conduct an in-depth study with the purpose of fully understanding the phenomenon, the issues involved in recruiting young people, and the stakeholders directly or indirectly involved. The Quebec Ministry of Public Security has therefore mandated the ICPC, through its Montreal Urban Safety Lab in 2022, to collect data aimed at updating our knowledge of the realities on the ground in order to better prevent the recruitment of young people by criminal gangs.
The final objective of this report is to provide crucial information for a better understanding of this phenomenon and to offer recommendations for improving the safety of living environments in the area most affected, such as the city of Laval, a Quebec city located on the outskirts of Montreal. According to the Laval police’s 2021 activity report, the number of crime-related increased by 14% between 2020 and 2021, including a significant number of firearms-related incidents (42) in 2021.
The report is presented in 3 sections:
1. A framework for analyzing the phenomenon and the specific characteristics of criminal gangs, as well as the risk and protective factors associated with their entry.
2. The socio-spatial context of the study, highlighting the specific sociodemographic, socioeconomic, and sociocontextual characteristics of the territory concerned, i.e. the Chomedey district of Laval.
3. A third section divided into five sub-sections:
Read the report here (available in French only)
Read the press release (available in French only)
In response to the growing concern about firearms incidents in Montreal, the ICPC is proud to announce the publication of its report on the analysis of criminal incidents involving the use of a firearm in the Greater Montreal area.
This report, made possible with the financial support of the Quebec Ministry of Public Security, highlights the context in which firearms are used in the Greater Montreal area, based on the criminal offence codes used.
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