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4.6 Criminal Justice System Process - ICCS Crimes Level 1
4.6.5.2 Persons entering prison for: Acts leading to harm or intending to cause harm to the person (ICCS 02)
All persons entering prisons, penal institutions or correctional institutions during the course of the year for “acts leading to harm or intending to cause harm to the person”. This includes persons entering pre-sentence detention and persons entering prisons after a sentence was pronounced by a competent authority, as well as entries that occurred after the revocation, suspension or annulment of a conditional release or probation and entries that occurred due to transfers from a foreign country. Entry following a period of authorised absence or temporary prison leave should be excluded. “Acts leading to harm or intending to cause harm to the person” are those criminal offences defined in Section 02 of the International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS), UNODC, Mar 2015, pp.37-49. [Web: http://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/statistics/crime/ICCS/ICCS_English_2016_web.pdf] They include: Assaults and threats (0201), Acts against liberty (0202), Slavery and exploitation (0203), Trafficking in persons (TIP) (0204), Coercion (0205), Negligence (0206), Dangerous acts (0207), Acts intended to induce fear or emotional (0208), Defamation or insult (0209), Discrimination (0210), Acts that trespass against the person (0211), Other acts leading to death or intending to cause harm to the person (0219), and subcategories of these, as listed on pp. 23-25 of the ICCS. [Source: Data are provided by Member States through the United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (UN-CTS).]

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