Space II -- Community Sanctions and Measures (CSM) Ordered in 1999

• NCJ Number: 201611
• Journal: Penological Information Bulletin Issue: 23, 24 Dated: December 2002 Pages: 131-154
• Author(s): Pierre V. Tournier
• Date Published: December 2002
• Length: 24 pages
• Publication Format: Article
• Publication Type: Statistics; Report (Annual/Periodic)
• Language: English
• Country: France
• Note: *This document is currently unavailable from NCJRS.

Annotation

This report presents statistics on community sanctions and measures ordered in each European Union country in 1999.

Abstract

Community sanctions and measures encompass "sanctions and measures which maintain the offender in the community and involve some restriction of his/her liberty through the imposition of conditions and/or obligations, and which are implemented by bodies designated in law for that purpose." In addition, community sanctions and measures designate "any sanction imposed by a court or a judge, and any measure taken before or instead of a decision or a sanction as well as ways of enforcing a sentence of imprisonment outside a prison establishment." Sanctions addressed in the data include conditional deferral of a sentence; treatment ordered for drug-dependent offenders, alcoholics, offenders with mental disorders, and persons convicted of a sexual offense; compensation ordered by a criminal court; community service; probation; electronic monitoring in the community; semi-liberty; conditional release before completion of the sentence; and combined sanctions and measures followed by treatment. The total number of offenders for 10 categories of sanctions or measures are presented in 1 table. Three tables contain data concerning prison sentences without full or partial suspension; these provide a means of comparison for determining the frequency with which the various community sanctions are applied. Five tables address community sanctions that may take different forms: treatment ordered, community service, probation, combined sanctions and measures, and others. A table also provides data on a global frequency index (GFI), which is obtained by finding the ratio of the number of community sanctions in a given category ordered in 1999 to the number of prison sentences without full or partial suspension ordered the same year. Another table contains data on a specific frequency index (SFI), which is calculated the same as the GFI, but includes only sentences of less than 1 year in the denominator. 12 tables