NCJ Number
151611
Date Published
1994
Length
67 pages
Annotation
This report presents statistical data regarding inmates in Hong Kong in 1993.
Abstract
The offenders served their sentences in prisons, drug treatment centers, training centers, or a detention center. These institutions admitted 13,327 offenders in 1993. Of these, 10,455 were sentenced to prisons, 2,083 to drug treatment centers, 428 to training centers, and 361 to detention centers. The tables and figures describe the offenders by age, offense, length of sentence, month of sentence, number of previous offenses, number of previous institutional sentences, occupation, educational attainment, residence, marital status, drug abuse status, and gang affiliation. Additional tables focus on admissions by type of program, the characteristics of drug addicts, comparisons of different types of offenders, and trends since 1978. Figures and tables