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4.6 Criminal Justice System Process - ICCS Crimes Level 1
4.6.5.8 Persons entering prison for: Acts against public order, authority and provisions of the State (ICCS 08)
All persons entering prisons, penal institutions or correctional institutions during the course of the year for “acts against public order, authority and provisions of the State”. 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 against public order, authority and provisions of the State” are those criminal offences defined in Section 08 of the International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS), UNODC, Mar 2015, pp.74-81. They include: Acts against public order behavioural standards (0801); Acts against public order sexual standards (0801), as: prostitution and pornography offences; Acts related to freedom of expression or control of expression (0803); Acts contrary to public revenue or regulatory provisions (0804); Acts related to migration (0805), as: the smuggling of migrants offences, or other unlawful acts related to migration); Acts against the justice system (0806); Acts related to democratic elections (0807); Acts contrary to labour law (0808); Other acts against public order, authority and provisions of the State (0809); and subcategories of those, as listed on pp. 28-29 of the ICCS. [Data are provided by Member States through the United Nations Survey of Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (UN-CTS).]

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