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WPB notes this: "As it is not possible to obtain meaningful comparative data on numbers of children in custody in different countries, we do not include juvenile imprisonment data in the highest to lowest lists." [1] Note: Table data fully updated Oct 22, 2024. Some individual countries since then.
Norway has one of the lowest recidivism rates in the world; in 2018 the reconviction rate was 18% within two years of release, with a recidivism rate of 25% after five years. [1] The country also has one of the lowest crime rates on Earth. [2] [3] [4] Norway's prison system houses approximately three thousand offenders. [5]
[7] [8] In 2015 the US had the 2nd highest incarceration rate (698), behind the Seychelles rate of 799 per 100,000. [5] Comparing English-speaking developed countries; the incarceration rate of Canada was 85 per 100,000 (as of 2020), [9] England and Wales was 146 per 100,000 (as of 2023), [10] and Australia was 158 per 100,000 (as of 2022). [11]
Norway has previously rented prison cells from the Netherlands under a “Norgerhaven” agreement which saw 650 prisoners sent to the country between 2015 and 2018.
The overpopulation rate (number of prisoners held compared to number of places for prisoners) was estimated by the official prison service as 119%. [14] The growth rate of imprisonment in Poland during 2006–2007 was approximately 4% annually, based on the August 2007 estimate of 90,199 prisoners and the June 2005 estimate of 82,572 prisoners ...
The recidivism rate in California as of 2008–2009 is 61%. [74] Recidivism has reduced slightly in California from the years of 2002 to 2009 by 5.2%. [74] However, California still has one of the highest recidivism rates in the nation. This high recidivism rate contributes greatly to the overcrowding of jails and prisons in California. [75]
As a result, most countries have high recidivism rates. In the United States, 67.8% of released prisoners are rearrested within three years and 76.6% are rearrested within five years. [6] Prison reformers argue in favor of reducing prison populations, mainly through reducing the number of those imprisoned for minor crimes.
The crime drop or crime decline is a pattern observed in many countries whereby rates of many types of crime declined by 50% or more beginning in the mid to late 1980s and early 1990s. [1] The crime drop is not a new phenomenon emerging in the 1990s. For Europe, crime statistics show a declining pattern since the late Middle Ages.