Prison Information Bulletin | Number 15, June 1990

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Survey of prison systems in the Member States of the Council of Europe: comparative prison demography
  • Chapter 1 | Prison populations (P. Tournier)
    • Current situation
      • Size of populations and breakdown
        • Rates of detention
        • Demographic breakdown
        • Breakdown by type of detention
      • Flows of imprisonment
      • Duration of imprisonment
    • Past development
      • Changes in numbers since 1970
      • Changes in stocks, flows of imprisonment and duration of imprisonment since 1983
      • Changes in breakdown since 1983
        • Detention pending trial
        • Demographic breakdown
  • Chapter 2 | Indicators of conditions of detention and prison budgets
    • Conditions of detention (P. Tournier)
      • Rates of occupancy of prisons
      • Prison staffing and ratio of staff to prisoners
    • Prison budgets (M-D. Barre)
      • Annual budget of prison administrations
      • Buildings and equipment
      • Prisoners
      • Staff
  • Chapter 3 | Frequency of recourse to custodial sentences (M-D. Barre)
    • Method
      • Problems of definition
      • Questionnaire
    • Results of the survey
      • Breakdown of sentences: courts for adults
      • Breakdown of sentences: juvenile courts
      • Frequency of custodial sentences without suspension
    • Annexes
  • Chapter 4 | Recidivism and its measurement (P. Tournier)
    • Populations studied and observation periods
      • Studies not dealing with prison populations
      • Studies dealing with prison populations
        • Cohorts of released prisoners
        • Other cases
    • Criteria for recidivism
    • Main results
    • Annex
  • Bibliographical references
  • List of tables
  • List of figures