NCJ Number
141767
Date Published
1992
Length
23 pages
Annotation
These statistics, which have been published annually since 1961, provides information on inmates imprisoned in West German correctional facilities as of March 31, 1990.
Abstract
All of the statistics are taken from the inmate records and collated by the German Bureau of Statistics. Specific categories of inmate information include type of offense, type of sentence, number of previous prison terms, duration of prison term, age, gender, place of residence, nationality, and marital status. The collection also includes a survey inmate statistics from 1965 to 1990. Unlike in previous years, it no longer includes systematic information on inmate admissions and departures in individual correctional facilities; this information will be published later in a free supplementary issue. The special value of this collection lies in the fact that it is published much earlier than the annual inmate statistics for 1990, but it also includes some distortions. Short-term prisoners are underrepresented because the shorter the prison term, the smaller the likelihood that the inmate will be found in prison on the exact date of March 31, 1993.