Prison rate

Prisoner rate in prisoners per 100,000 population. As of 2016

The prisoner rate (also prisoner quota , imprisonment quota , prisoner number or imprisonment rate ) is a quantity from statistical sociology . It indicates what proportion of a country's population is in custody . Usually it is given in prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants. In European countries it is around 100 prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants. The Seychelles have the highest prison rate worldwide with 799 prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants, followed by the USA with 666, and the lowest in Guinea-Bissau with 10 out of 100,000 (survey from 2016).

Situation in Germany

In Germany, the prisoner rate is 77 out of 100,000 (as of 2017). In a comparison of the federal states based on data from 2017, Berlin had the highest value with 108 out of 100,000, followed by Bavaria and Saxony with 88 and 87 out of 100,000, respectively. Schleswig-Holstein had the lowest prisoner rate among the federal states with 41 out of 100,000, which corresponds to that in the Scandinavian states. The sanction researchers Frieder Dünkel and Bernd Geng explain this with the fact that Schleswig-Holstein "has always pursued a 'reductionist imprisonment policy'".

For decades, around five percent of the prisoners have been women. Special prison rates for the female population are not determined.

The prison rate in Germany has been falling since 2000. In 2018, 50,957 prisoners were held in closed or open prison systems in German prisons. In addition, 3,701 people served youth sentences. The number of people in preventive detention was 566.

Situation in Austria

In Austria, the prisoner rate is 95 out of 100,000 (as of 2015).

Situation in Switzerland and Liechtenstein

In Switzerland, the prisoner rate is 84 out of 100,000 (as of 2014). In Liechtenstein, however, the prison rate is only 21 in 100,000.

See also

• List of countries by prison inmate

Web links

• Federal Statistical Office Germany: prisoners by sex, age and type of prison, probable length of prison

Individual evidence

1. ^ International Center for Prison Studies, Highest to Lowest - Prison Population Rate , accessed January 23, 2016
2. ↑ International Center for Prison Studies , accessed November 19, 2017
3. ↑ Frieder Dünkel, Bernd Geng: The development of prisoner rates in a national and international comparison - an indicator of punitivity? In: Social Problems , Volume 24, 2013, Issue 1, pp. 42–66, here p. 51, online version ( Memento from February 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), PDF, accessed on February 24, 2016
4. ↑ Prison. Retrieved November 10, 2019 . 
5. ↑ International Center for Prison Studies , accessed January 23, 2016
6. ↑ International Center for Prison Studies , accessed January 23, 2016
7. ↑ International Center for Prison Studies , accessed January 23, 2016