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On the basis of the data contained in the European Sourcebook, this article tries to answer the question: 'What influences the prisoner rate most? The number of entries into prison, the length of sentences, or the crime rate?' The authors show that the crime rate is absolutely not correlated with the prisoner rate. The latter depends principally on the length of the imposed custodial sanctions and secondly on the number of those imposed prison sentences. Nevertheless, there are some indications suggesting that these results could be different from one type of offence to another. Unfortunately, this hypothesis could not be tested on the basis of the European Sourcebook data.
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Aebi, M.F., Kuhn, A. Influences on the Prisoner Rate: Number of Entries into Prison, Length of Sentences and Crime Rate. European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research 8, 65–75 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008753330678
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