Defining and Registering Criminal Offences and Measures - Oapen
Defining and Registering Criminal Offences and Measures - Oapen
Defining and Registering Criminal Offences and Measures - Oapen
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Prison Population<br />
addition, it should be clarified that it is useful to deal with final decisions, wherever<br />
this is possible; basically, it is needed to ask precisely what the nature of the<br />
data we are getting is.<br />
The main question was whether the ESB should collect correction data or<br />
whether it should utilize data provided by SPACE. The existing overlap between<br />
Sourcebook <strong>and</strong> SPACE questionnaires may have pernicious side effects. The<br />
group was somewhat reluctant to give up its network of national correspondents.<br />
The two questionnaires are not identical; the timetables may also differ. The group<br />
decided to keep the questionnaire for chapter four of the Sourcebook, improving<br />
definitions with the help of SPACE I work. For alternatives to prison, one would<br />
need to draft a short questionnaire based on SPACE II work. It was also decided<br />
to collect information on (a) the number of inmates who have been in pre-trial<br />
detention (flow) <strong>and</strong> (b) the number of persons under pre-trial detention (stock) at<br />
the corrections level (also see chapter L).<br />
The group decided as far as possible not to duplicate SPACE work <strong>and</strong> also<br />
refrained from collecting data on community sanctions <strong>and</strong> measures or probation.<br />
This had already been tried in the 2nd edition questionnaire, but not very<br />
successfully. In order to reflect the complex reality of community sanctions <strong>and</strong><br />
measures <strong>and</strong> probation across Europe, an in-depth study on that topic would be<br />
very useful. Still, several changes were introduced in the corrections chapter,<br />
namely it was tried to collect more differentiated data on certain groups of prisoners.<br />
Also, it was tried for the first time to collect data on the effective length of term<br />
served by convicted prisoners. In the convictions chapter, only data on the length of the<br />
sentence imposed by the court is collected. Changes, e.g. due to conditional release<br />
from prison, are therefore not taken into account in that section.<br />
2. Trial questionnaire <strong>and</strong> evaluation<br />
The group finally agreed on a version that was piloted in the trial questionnaire. It<br />
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