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The Eighth United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (2002)
(United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention)
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PATMANDO 2nd January 2012 |
Anyone know where I can find the stats on cons returning to prison for worse crime than what they were previously convicted for? |
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Mansion 19th July 2011 |
@ Joe That cost includes guard salary, prison maintenance, etc. Don't think prisoners are at all living the high life, any big screen TVs you might see in common areas are actually paid for by the prisoners themselves, at least this was the case in a facility I visited. |
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qwerty 25th June 2011 |
Why Tajikistan has 0???? no info? |
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Wamala Balunabba 19th June 2011 |
This is good research |
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Katie 3rd June 2011 |
@ Kathy Crime isn't by gender. Both men and women have moral codes and both are equal. Men have more testosterone and are typically more aggressive which might make them more prone to committing crimes, but women are more likely to be psychotic- does this mean all female crimes are due to crazy girls? Because of the different perception children create as they grow due to their environment, girls in, let's say, bad parts of town, for example, are raised to think differently than boys raised in the same part of town. Think of the cultural bias that men must take care of the family; little brothers, mother, sisters, wife, children. Perhaps men are put in jail more because they have to support a family. It is just as, if not more, likely that this would happen as compared to the number of women in jail being due to protecting themselves or loved ones from a male aggressor. Just over 20% of women crime can't make it "almost always" a male activity- one of every five crimes are women. If it was one of many many many more crimes, perhaps then we could say that crime is almost always a male activity. Crimes are crimes. Violent crimes are bad, but are they worse that fraud schemes that steal live savings, ruin lives, ruin businesses? Perhaps that isn't a good example. But look at it this way- either way we have to pay for them to sit in a jail cell. Either way they are a potential menace to society. None of what you have stated has given solid enough evidence as to why women are better than men. In fact, the reason why most people don't believe in what you say is because the evidence always offered in circumstantial. I am a women, proud to be one, but until I see better reasons why we are better than them, Why should I believe you? For now, I'll stick with thinking genders are equal. |
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Hap 18th February 2011 |
USA! USA! USA! WE'RE NUMBER ONE !! |
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Joseph Hart 12th February 2011 |
@ Joe Freedom If you look at more of the stats available on this website you will see that only 0.5% of the US prison population are foreign. |
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JDoob 13th June 2010 |
To ChrisL: It's confusing, but you're looking at it the wrong way. Texas has a higher rate of imprisonment, not more individual prisoners than the rest of the US states combined. It just simply incarcerates people at a higher rate than the rest of the country whether combined or considered individually per state. Plus it's not 704 out of 100,000, it is 1 out of 704, which is a higher rate than 1 in 726. So it all means, in Texas you are approximately 6% more likely to be arrested than anywhere else in the US. |
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Joe 9th June 2010 |
"The average cost for one year of imprisonment for one person is US$22,000..." Are you f'in kidding me, I live in a rented apt. and pay for everything I need myself, and live on about 13-16k a year, prisoners must be getting quite a bit... |
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Chris L 8th May 2010 |
I'm confused about some of the stats form Ian. If in the US, 1in 726 per 100,000 are imprisoned, how can Texas be at the top with 704 per 100,000? Either one of those numbers is wrong, or Texas has more than 103% of all the prisoners in the US.... |
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Kathy 16th April 2010 |
If one looks at the female prisoner stats listed here, we would see that the highest percentage of women in prison is only 20.3%, it shows that crime is almost always a MALE activity. I do wonder how many of the women in prison are there because they were protecting themselves from male aggression. If this numbers were separated and we could see the number of women in prison for violent crimes, I am sure it would be almost ALL male. It is hard to imagine why most everyone cannot see that women are morally superior to males and in reality, when we look at the overall picture with health, education and other things, that women are by far superior to males in almost every area! |
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Joe Freedom 23rd February 2010 |
Contrary to the bigoted assertion of Jim50, most people in US jails are Americans. Not a very free country is it, with by far the largest number of it's citizens in jail!! Land of the free? No its the land of the police state. |
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Jim50 7th May 2009 |
I wonder how many prisoners would be in the US system if we kicked out all the illegals. |
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Ian Graham Staff Editor 25th April 2005 |
The United States Department of Justice released its latest official half-yearly figures on the penal system Sunday, revealing that the number of inmates in American prisons rose 2.3 percent over 2003. The prison and jail population in the U.S. was 2,131,180 in mid-2004. For every 100,000 people in the U.S., 726 are imprisoned, compared to figures of 142 per 100,000 for England, 91 for France, and 58 for Japan. Almost 13 percent of black males in their late 20s are in prison or jail, while for Hispanics the corresponding figure is 3.6 percent. Only 1.7 percent of white twentysomething males are incarcerated. While the violent crime rate in the U.S. dropped by one-third from 1994 to 2003, and the property crime rate by 23 percent, the prison population has increased by an annual average of 3.5 percent since 1995. Much of the increase is due to convicts reoffending; two out of every three prisoners released return to prison within three years. Since 1998, 12 states have had stable or declining rates of incarceration, though the crime rate in those states didn’t decline any faster than in the other 38 states. Texas is tops, with 704 per 100,000 people in state prisons, while Maine imprisons only 149. The number of female inmates increased by 2.9 percent from 2003 to 2004, and there are now over 100,000 women in U.S. prisons, compared to 12,000 in 1980. Another 238,000 prisoners have serious mental illnesses, and there are also 92,000 foreign prisoners in U.S. prisons. The average cost for one year of imprisonment for one person is US$22,000, and the U.S. spends about $57 billion per year on its correctional system. |
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