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4.6 Criminal Justice System Process - ICCS Crimes Level 1
4.6.5.9 Persons entering prison for: Acts against public safety and state security (ICCS 09)
All persons entering prisons, penal institutions or correctional institutions during the course of the year for “acts against public safety and state security”. 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 safety and state security” are those criminal offences defined in Section 09 of the International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS), UNODC, Mar 2015, pp.82-88. They include: Acts involving weapons, explosives and other destructive materials (0901), as: unlawful possession, use or trafficking of weapons, explosives chemical, biological or radioactive materials; Acts against health and safety (0902); Acts against computer systems (0903), as: unlawful access or interference with a computer system or computer data, and other acts against computer systems; Acts against state security (0904); Acts related to an organized criminal group (0905), as: participation or other acts related to an organized criminal group); Terrorism (0906), as: participation in, financing of, or other acts related to the activities of a terrorist group); Other acts against public safety and state security (0909); and subcategories of those, as listed on pp. 29-30 of the ICCS. [Data are provided by Member States through the UN-CTS.]

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