NCJ Number
144940
Date Published
1993
Length
60 pages
Annotation
This report presents statistical descriptions of all persons sentenced to correctional institutions administered by the Hong Kong Correctional Services Department for 1992.
Abstract
Statistics are presented by the type of facility in which inmates were housed: prisons, drug addiction treatment centers, training centers, or a detention center. Section One of this report provides an overview of the socioeconomic and criminal characteristics of the sentenced persons. Section Two summarizes key statistics of the sentenced persons by type of correctional program (imprisonment without option of a fine, default in fine payment, custody in a drug treatment center, custody in a training center, and custody in a detention center). Section Three contains detailed statistics on drug-dependent persons, and Section Four presents comparative statistics for 1991 and 1992 on selected offender characteristics, namely, sentence length, a previous institutional sentence, and offense type. The overall statistics indicate that there were 13,561 admissions to Hong Kong correctional institutions in 1992. A total of 11,065 were sentenced to prisons, 1,718 to drug addiction treatment centers, 357 to training centers, and 421 to detention centers. 42 tables