{"id":66977,"date":"2021-04-12T03:00:17","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T01:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/?p=66977"},"modified":"2021-09-13T11:06:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T09:06:53","slug":"europes-imprisonment-rate-continues-to-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/en\/europes-imprisonment-rate-continues-to-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe\u2019s imprisonment rate continues to fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The overall European imprisonment rate &#8211; the number of persons in prison per 100,000 inhabitants &#8211; fell again slightly in 2020, consolidating a trend that started in 2013, according to the Council of Europe\u2019s\u00a0<strong>Annual Penal Statistics on Prison Populations for 2020.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1200px-Flag_of_the_Council_of_Europe.svg_.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-66771 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1200px-Flag_of_the_Council_of_Europe.svg_-300x176.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1200px-Flag_of_the_Council_of_Europe.svg_-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1200px-Flag_of_the_Council_of_Europe.svg_-1024x600.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1200px-Flag_of_the_Council_of_Europe.svg_-768x450.png 768w, https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1200px-Flag_of_the_Council_of_Europe.svg_.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On 31 January 2020, there were 1,528,343 inmates in 51 prison administrations (out of 52) of the Council of Europe member states, which corresponds to a European prison population rate of 103.2 inmates per 100,000 inhabitants. In the 50 prison administrations for which data are available for both 2019 and 2020 this rate fell from 106.1 to 104.3 inmates per 100,000 inhabitants (-1.7%).<\/p>\n<p>Since 2013, when it peaked at 131 inmates per 100,000 inhabitants, this rate has fallen every year, reaching an overall decline of 20%. According to Professor Marcelo Aebi, Head of the SPACE research team from the University of Lausanne, this reduction partly reflects the decrease of traditional offences like theft and robbery over that period, which has not been compensated by the increase of cyber-related offences, namely cyber-frauds. Cybercrimes lead to less convictions because the perpetrators are often based outside the national territory and are difficult to trace and sanction.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/prison-2020.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-66971 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/prison-2020.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"870\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/prison-2020.jpg 870w, https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/prison-2020-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/prison-2020-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The countries with the highest incarceration rates in January 2020 were Turkey (357 inmates per 100,000 inhabitants), Russia (356), Georgia (264), Lithuania (220) Azerbaijan (209), Czech Republic (197), Poland (195), Slovak Republic (193) and Estonia (184). Not taking into account countries with less than 300,000 inhabitants, the lowest incarceration rates were found in Iceland (45), Finland (50), Netherlands (59) and Norway (59).<\/p>\n<p>Drug-related offences continued to be the reason for which prisoners had been convicted most often in the 42 prison administrations that provided this data (close to 260,000 inmates representing 17.7% of the total prison population), followed by theft (199,000 inmates, 13%) and homicide \u2013 including attempts -(169,000, 12%). Four of every 10 inmates had been convicted for offences involving violence (homicide, assault and battery, rape and other sexual offences, and robbery).<\/p>\n<h3>Further information:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/search.coe.int\/directorate_of_communications\/Pages\/result_details.aspx?ObjectId=0900001680a20730\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Press release-Council of Europe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The overall European imprisonment rate &#8211; the number of persons in prison per 100,000 inhabitants &#8211; fell again slightly in 2020, consolidating a trend that started in 2013, according to the Council of Europe\u2019s\u00a0Annual Penal Statistics on Prison Populations for 2020. &nbsp; On 31 January 2020, there were 1,528,343 inmates in 51 prison administrations (out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101011,"featured_media":66972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4075,346,4078,4079],"tags":[2688,2941],"class_list":{"0":"post-66977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-defence-security","8":"category-eu-news","9":"category-internat-safety-pol","10":"category-law","11":"tag-council-of-europe","12":"tag-european-imprisonment-rate","13":"entry"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Europe\u2019s imprisonment rate continues to fall | CDE Almer\u00eda - Centro de Documentaci\u00f3n Europea - Universidad de Almer\u00eda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/en\/europes-imprisonment-rate-continues-to-fall\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Europe\u2019s imprisonment rate continues to fall | CDE Almer\u00eda - Centro de Documentaci\u00f3n Europea - Universidad de Almer\u00eda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The overall European imprisonment rate &#8211; 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