NCJ Number
134054
Date Published
1990
Length
90 pages
Annotation
Statistical information is presented for 14,356 offenders sentenced to the 4 correctional programs administered by the Hong Kong Correctional Services: prison; drug addiction treatment; training; or detention facilities.
Abstract
In the first section the socioeconomic factors and criminal characteristics are given for the offenders in all four types of facilities covering age, previous convictions, offenses, types of sentence, length of sentence, education, occupation, and marital status. In the second section, detailed statistics are provided for the drug dependent offender including type of drug use, method of administration of the drug, length of drug dependence, and causation as well as offense type, length of sentence, sex, and educational level. Comparative statistics for 1989 and 1990 are given for selected variables such as sentence pattern with the focus on length of sentence, previous institutional sentence, drug addiction treatment, training center detention, and type of offenses in the third section. 58 tables