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Justice Sector Strategy

2011 Justice Sector ForecastHistorical perspectives and forecast trends

Justice Horizons Seminar27 October 2011

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ContentsLong-term crime trends

Demographic trends

Crime resolution trends

Court volume trends

Forecast sentence trends

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ContentsLong-term crime trends

Demographic trends

Crime resolution trends

Court volume trends

Forecast sentence trends

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Murder rate: Newspaper headlines

2008

“Violent crime rises 11%”“Violent crime, including murder, jumped dramatically in the year to June...”Otago Daily Times, 1 October 2008

2009

“NZ's murder rate halved in past 20 years”“...despite an overwhelming public belief that crime has got worse.”New Zealand Herald, 7 April 2009

2010

“Murder rate up 20 per cent”“...increase of 38.6 per cent in recorded homicide and related offences.”Dominion Post, 1 October 2010

2011

“Murder rate at 25-year low”“Homicide and related offending dropped 23.8 per cent”Stuff, 3 October 2011

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Murder rate: Long-term per capita rate

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Each of the newspaper headlines is accurateDownward trend from mid-1980s, though quite volatile

Source: Roger Falloon, data compiled from multiple sources

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Murder rate: Long-term per capita rate

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Each of the newspaper headlines is accurateDownward trend from mid-1980s, though quite volatileUpward trend from low point in the 1950s, then large step up in 1985

Change in recording practice in 1978, following introduction of the Wanganui Computer

Source: Roger Falloon, data compiled from multiple sources

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Each of the newspaper headlines is accurateDownward trend from mid-1980s, though quite volatileUpward trend from low point in the 1950s, then large step up in 1985Volatile and slightly downward/flat prior to 1950

Change in recording practice in 1978, following introduction of the Wanganui Computer

Source: Roger Falloon, data compiled from multiple sources

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Murder rate: Very long-term per capita rate

Source: Manuel Eisner, “Long-Term Historical Trends in Violent Crime”, 2003

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2011 headline:

“Murder rate falls 97% in 500 years”

Taking a longer view provides some perspectiveRecent rates are substantially lower than in previous centuries

Previous chart on the same vertical scale

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Tough on crime: A long-term perspective

Data sourced from Statistics NZ, Police Annual Reports, and Department of Corrections.

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Traffic Officers merge with Police in 1992

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Data sourced from Statistics NZ, Police Annual Reports, and Department of Corrections.

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Tough on crime: A long-term perspectiveRecorded crime rate leapt from the 1950s to peak in 1992; declining since thenSince the 1950s the per capita number of sworn Police has more than doubledImprisonment rate has more than doubled since the 1980sThese trends reflect “tough on crime” policies, common to many countries

Traffic Officers merge with Police in 1992

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Data sourced from Statistics NZ, Police Annual Reports, and Department of Corrections.

From 1994 “Crime rate” represents reported crime. Earlier figures are equivalent estimates from Statistics NZ.

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Crime is falling in many countriesCrime is falling across most Western countries:

United States: crime has been falling since 1991Australia: on-going decline since peak in 2001Scotland: recorded crime at its lowest level for over 30 years, having peaked in 2004/05Canada: reported crime volume declining over the past decade; Crime Severity Index declined 22% from 1999 to 2009England and Wales: offences are declining, having peaked in 2007/08Netherlands: recently started hiring out their prisons to Belgium, citing a reduction in crime as one of the reasons they had space

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Crime is falling in many countriesCrime is falling across most Western countries:

United States: crime has been falling since 1991Australia: on-going decline since peak in 2001Scotland: recorded crime at its lowest level for over 30 years, having peaked in 2004/05Canada: reported crime volume declining over the past decade; Crime Severity Index declined 22% from 1999 to 2009England and Wales: offences are declining, having peaked in 2007/08Netherlands: recently started hiring out their prisons to Belgium, citing a reduction in crime as one of the reasons they had space

Though there are exceptions, for example:

Sweden: increasing crimeFinland: flat volumes for 2000 to 2009

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Crime is falling in many countries – why?Many theories about why crime is falling (in the US, though similar in NZ):

The Obama effect – election of a black president had an inspirational effectFall in demand for crack – leading to a fall in associated violent crimeSmarter policing – targeting high risk factorsNumber crunching – analysis of crime patternsLegal abortion – fewer children for young, poor, single mothersMore criminals behind bars – so less opportunity to offendReduced exposure to lead in petrol – reducing behavioural problemsDemographics – the Baby Boomers grew upVideo games – keeping young people off the streets [+ social media?]Proliferation of camera phones – increasing the risk of being caught

Much debate about these (and other) theories, but no consensus.

Source: “US crime figures: Why the drop?”, Tom Geoghegan, 21 June 2011, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13799616

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ContentsLong-term crime trends

Demographic trends

Crime resolution trends

Court volume trends

Forecast sentence trends

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Demographic structure: The “Echo Boomers”Echo Boomers (born ~1982-95), children of the Baby Boomers (born 1946-61)Most reach age 18-24 in the years 2000-2013

Total population of 18-24 year olds expected to peak in 2013 then decline until 2023

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Demographic structure: The “Echo Boomers”Echo Boomers (born ~1982-95), children of the Baby Boomers (born 1946-61)Most reach age 18-24 in the years 2000-2013:

Total population of 18-24 year olds expected to peak in 2013 then decline until 2023After a plateau from 2000 to 2010, proportional share of population resumes decline

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Plateau from 2000 to 2010

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Demographic structure: The “Echo Boomers”Echo Boomers (born ~1982-95), children of the Baby Boomers (born 1946-61)Most reach age 18-24 in the years 2000-2013

Total population of 18-24 year olds expected to peak in 2013 then decline until 2023After a plateau from 2000 to 2010, proportional share of population resumes decline

All else being equal, expect flat/declining crime due to demographic changes

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ContentsLong-term crime trends

Demographic trends

Crime resolution trends

Court volume trends

Forecast sentence trends

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Crime resolution rate is increasingRecorded crime volume fairly stable over the last decade

Per capita recorded crime rate continued to fall

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1994 to 2002: type of offence resolution was stable2003 to 2008: fewer warnings and Youth Aid diversion; prosecutions increased

Prosecutions increased, while warnings and Youth Aid declined

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Less propensity to prosecute, though conviction rate of those prosecuted has been steadily increasing

Prosecutions increased, while warnings and Youth Aid declined

1994 to 2002: type of offence resolution was stable2003 to 2008: fewer warnings and Youth Aid diversion; prosecutions increased2009 to 2010: less propensity to prosecute:

Warnings returned to previous level (Policing Excellence “Alternative Resolutions”)Though use of Youth Aid has remained at a lower level

Warnings returned to previous level

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ContentsLong-term crime trends

Demographic trends

Crime resolution trends

Court volume trends

Forecast sentence trends

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r)

Fiscal year

Court volume - long term trend

Actual Forecast

Criminal court volumes are falling

Definition: Court volume is measured in terms of number of people with a case or cases ending on a given day. This measure may differ from other court volume statistics.

Court volume stable from 1990 to 2002

Stable 1990 to 2002

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/17

2018

/19

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/21

Co

urt

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r y

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r)

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Court volume - long term trend

Actual Forecast

Criminal court volumes are falling

Definition: Court volume is measured in terms of number of people with a case or cases ending on a given day. This measure may differ from other court volume statistics.

Court volume stable from 1990 to 2002Then rose to peak in 2009/10

Stable 1990 to 2002

Peak in 2009 and 2010

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1992

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/19

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r)

Fiscal year

Court volume - long term trend

Actual Forecast

Criminal court volumes are falling

Definition: Court volume is measured in terms of number of people with a case or cases ending on a given day. This measure may differ from other court volume statistics.

Court volume stable from 1990 to 2002Then rose to peak in 2009/1013% reduction in prosecutions occurred in the 2010/11 year

13% drop in prosecutions in

2010/11

Stable 1990 to 2002

Peak in 2009 and 2010

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/91

1992

/93

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/95

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/05

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/09

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/11

2012

/13

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/15

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/17

2018

/19

2020

/21

Co

urt

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e (

pe

r y

ea

r)

Fiscal year

Court volume - long term trend

Actual Forecast

Criminal court volumes are falling

Definition: Court volume is measured in terms of number of people with a case or cases ending on a given day. This measure may differ from other court volume statistics.

Police forecast further reduction in offences and prosecutions, returning to the 2005 court volume by 2015.

Court volume stable from 1990 to 2002Then rose to peak in 2009/1013% reduction in prosecutions occurred in the 2010/11 yearPolice forecast a further reduction in prosecutions

Due to Policing Excellence and a general reduction in reported crime

Stable 1990 to 2002

Peak in 2009 and 2010

13% drop in prosecutions in

2010/11

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40%

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90%

Jun 00 Jun 01 Jun 02 Jun 03 Jun 04 Jun 05 Jun 06 Jun 07 Jun 08 Jun 09 Jun 10 Jun 11

Prop

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ence

s (%

)

Monthly

Community and Monetary sentences

Monetary CPS Monetary + CPS

Community vs. Monetary sentencesTotal sentence volume is driven by prosecution volume and conviction rateCommunity sentences increasing as a proportion of total sentences

The other sentence types are:

Prison (8% of total)

Other (15% of total, mainly ‘conviction and discharge’ ).

CPS = Community Probation Service

New Community sentences introduced

in October 2007

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10%

20%

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60%

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Jun 00 Jun 01 Jun 02 Jun 03 Jun 04 Jun 05 Jun 06 Jun 07 Jun 08 Jun 09 Jun 10 Jun 11

Prop

orti

on o

f all

sent

ence

s (%

)

Monthly

Community and Monetary sentences

Monetary CPS Monetary + CPS

Community vs. Monetary sentencesTotal sentence volume is driven by prosecution volume and conviction rateCommunity sentences increasing as a proportion of total sentencesAt the expense of monetary sentences (mostly court-imposed fines)

Due to combination of fines going out of favour and new community sentence options

The other sentence types are:

Prison (8% of total)

Other (15% of total, mainly ‘conviction and discharge’ ).

CPS = Community Probation Service

Forecast assumes slight increase in Community sentence proportion, and slight decrease in Monetary proportion.

New Community sentences introduced

in October 2007

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0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

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Jun 00 Jun 01 Jun 02 Jun 03 Jun 04 Jun 05 Jun 06 Jun 07 Jun 08 Jun 09 Jun 10 Jun 11

Prop

orti

on o

f all

sent

ence

s (%

)

Monthly

Community and Monetary sentences

Monetary CPS Monetary + CPS

Community vs. Monetary sentencesTotal sentence volume is driven by prosecution volume and conviction rateCommunity sentences increasing as a proportion of total sentencesAt the expense of monetary sentences (mostly court-imposed fines)

Due to combination of fines going out of favour and new community sentence options

Total of community + monetary sentences is fairly stable

The other sentence types are:

Prison (8% of total)

Other (15% of total, mainly ‘conviction and discharge’ ).

CPS = Community Probation Service

Forecast assumes slight increase in Community sentence proportion, and slight decrease in Monetary proportion.

New Community sentences introduced

in October 2007

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ContentsLong-term crime trends

Demographic trends

Crime resolution trends

Court volume trends

Forecast sentence trends

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Quarter ending

Community sentences: Starts

Forecast community sentences startsSentence starts doubled following introduction of new sentences in 2007

Existing sentences, Community Work (64% of total) and Supervision, have also grown strongly since 2007

New sentences introduced in October 2007

Includes %total

CommunityWork

64%

Supervision 17%

IntensiveSupervision

4%

Extended Supervision

0%

Community Detention

9%

Home Detention

6%

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Forecast community sentences startsSentence starts doubled following introduction of new sentences in 2007

Existing sentences, Community Work (64% of total) and Supervision, have also grown strongly since 2007

Now expected to essentially plateau, due to declining prosecutions, offset by substitution from fines and remittal of fines to community sentences

0

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Quarter ending

Community sentences: Starts

New sentences introduced in October 2007

Includes %total

CommunityWork

64%

Supervision 17%

IntensiveSupervision

4%

Extended Supervision

0%

Community Detention

9%

Home Detention

6%

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11,000

12,000

Pri

so

ne

rs

Date

Prison population

4% buffer Reserve capacity

Total capacity Actual weekly maximum 2011 Justice Sector Forecast

Forecast prison populationPrison capacity has increased significantly in recent yearsPrevious forecasts showed an increasing prison population

Change in definition of capacity

New Wiri prison expected to open April 2015

New Mt Eden prison opened 1 June 2011 Old Mt Eden prison closed 1 August 2011

"Reserve Capacity" represents capacity that is not available for operational use, but which could be utilised in an emergency.

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12,000

Pri

so

ne

rs

Date

Prison population

Unused capacity 4% buffer Reserve capacity

Total capacity Actual weekly maximum 2011 Justice Sector Forecast

Forecast prison populationPrison capacity has increased significantly in recent yearsPrevious forecasts showed an increasing prison population

Change in definition of capacity

New Wiri prison expected to open April 2015

New Mt Eden prison opened 1 June 2011 Old Mt Eden prison closed 1 August 2011

"Reserve Capacity" represents capacity that is not available for operational use, but which could be utilised in an emergency.

6,000

7,000

8,000

9,000

10,000

11,000

12,000

Pri

so

ne

rs

Date

Prison population

Unused capacity 4% buffer Reserve capacity

Total capacity Actual weekly maximum 2011 Justice Sector Forecast

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12,000

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so

ne

rs

Date

Prison population

Unused capacity 4% buffer Reserve capacity

Total capacity Actual weekly maximum 2011 Justice Sector Forecast

Forecast prison populationPrison capacity has increased significantly in recent yearsPrevious forecasts showed an increasing prison population2011 forecast is very different:

Includes impacts of Policing ExcellencePrison population peaked in November 2010; forecast to fall over the next few years

"Reserve Capacity" represents capacity that is not available for operational use, but which could be utilised in an emergency.

Forecast 6% fall in prison population over the next 10 years, compared with 46% increase over the previous 10 years.

Change in definition of capacity

New Mt Eden prison opened 1 June 2011 Old Mt Eden prison closed 1 August 2011

New Wiri prison expected to open April 2015

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so

ne

rs

Week

Prison population: series of forecasts

2008 forecast 2009 forecast 2010 forecast 2011 forecast Actual

Bending back the curveThe justice sector is a dynamic system that changes over timePolicies and procedures were put in place to reduce the seemingly ever-growing prison population forecastConsequently, newer forecasts reflect changing expectations as the system responds to earlier forecasts

June 2008

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so

ne

rs

Week

Prison population: series of forecasts

2008 forecast 2009 forecast 2010 forecast 2011 forecast Actual

Bending back the curveThe justice sector is a dynamic system that changes over timePolicies and procedures were put in place to reduce the seemingly ever-growing prison population forecastConsequently, newer forecasts reflect changing expectations as the system responds to earlier forecasts

2008 forecast

June 2008

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11,000

Pri

so

ne

rs

Week

Prison population: series of forecasts

2008 forecast 2009 forecast 2010 forecast 2011 forecast Actual

Bending back the curveThe justice sector is a dynamic system that changes over timePolicies and procedures were put in place to reduce the seemingly ever-growing prison population forecastConsequently, newer forecasts reflect changing expectations as the system responds to earlier forecasts

June 2009

2008 forecast

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7,000

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9,000

10,000

11,000

Pri

so

ne

rs

Week

Prison population: series of forecasts

2008 forecast 2009 forecast 2010 forecast 2011 forecast Actual

Bending back the curveThe justice sector is a dynamic system that changes over timePolicies and procedures were put in place to reduce the seemingly ever-growing prison population forecastConsequently, newer forecasts reflect changing expectations as the system responds to earlier forecasts

2008 forecast

2009 forecastJune 2009

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so

ne

rs

Week

Prison population: series of forecasts

2008 forecast 2009 forecast 2010 forecast 2011 forecast Actual

Bending back the curveThe justice sector is a dynamic system that changes over timePolicies and procedures were put in place to reduce the seemingly ever-growing prison population forecastConsequently, newer forecasts reflect changing expectations as the system responds to earlier forecasts

June 2010 2008 forecast

2009 forecast

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so

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Week

Prison population: series of forecasts

2008 forecast 2009 forecast 2010 forecast 2011 forecast Actual

Bending back the curveThe justice sector is a dynamic system that changes over timePolicies and procedures were put in place to reduce the seemingly ever-growing prison population forecastConsequently, newer forecasts reflect changing expectations as the system responds to earlier forecasts

2008 forecast

2009 forecast2010 forecast

June 2010

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11,000

Pri

so

ne

rs

Week

Prison population: series of forecasts

2008 forecast 2009 forecast 2010 forecast 2011 forecast Actual

Bending back the curveThe justice sector is a dynamic system that changes over timePolicies and procedures were put in place to reduce the seemingly ever-growing prison population forecastConsequently, newer forecasts reflect changing expectations as the system responds to earlier forecasts

June 2011 2008 forecast

2009 forecast2010 forecast

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7,000

8,000

9,000

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11,000

Pri

so

ne

rs

Week

Prison population: series of forecasts

2008 forecast 2009 forecast 2010 forecast 2011 forecast Actual

Bending back the curveThe justice sector is a dynamic system that changes over timePolicies and procedures were put in place to reduce the seemingly ever-growing prison population forecastConsequently, newer forecasts reflect changing expectations as the system responds to earlier forecasts

2011 forecast

2008 forecast

2009 forecast2010 forecast

June 2011

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Dropping off the peakCurrent prison population per capita is close to the all time high

0

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Dropping off the peakCurrent prison population per capita is close to the all time highThe forecast decline in the prison population returns the per capita rate to around the 2005 level

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Dropping off the peakCurrent prison population per capita is close to the all time highThe forecast decline in the prison population returns the per capita rate to around the 2005 level

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Historical and forecast prison muster per capita

Forecast for 2021 is still more than 3 times higher than in 1950

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“Prediction is very difficult,

especially about the future.”Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (1885 - 1962)

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