What’s on the Who Is in Prison poster
A definition and 5 facts worth remembering.
Prison populations reflect sentencing and social policy at least as much as offending levels.
- Imprisonment rates vary enormously by country
- Remand prisoners are held before conviction
- Mental ill health far exceeds population levels
- Head injury and learning disability are common
- Care experience and exclusion are over-represented
- International range — Rates differ by more than tenfold
- Composition — Sentenced · remand · recalled
- Longer sentences raise the population even when crime is falling.
Educational reference. National statistics define categories differently; compare the definitions before comparing the rates.
Questions about the Who Is in Prison poster
- What’s on the Who Is in Prison poster?
- A definition and 5 facts worth remembering. Prison populations reflect sentencing and social policy at least as much as offending levels. Imprisonment rates vary enormously by country; Remand prisoners are held before conviction; Mental ill health far exceeds population levels; Head injury and learning disability are common; Care experience and exclusion are over-represented; International range — Rates differ by more than tenfold; Composition — Sentenced · remand · recalled; Longer sentences raise the population even when crime is falling.. Educational reference. National statistics define categories differently; compare the definitions before comparing the rates.
- Who is the Who Is in Prison poster for?
- Who Is in Prison belongs to the Criminal Justice section rather than to a school year, because law & society is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning corrections can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Who Is in Prison poster?
- Use it before treating the size of a prison system as a measure of its crime rate. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Who Is in Prison belongs on the wall where that law & society work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Who Is in Prison?
- Short Custody or Community, Desistance and Electronic Monitoring sit alongside Who Is in Prison in the Criminal Justice section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Short Custody or CommunityDesistanceElectronic Monitoring
- Is the Who Is in Prison poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Who Is in Prison downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Criminal Justice section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Who Is in Prison poster print at?
- Who Is in Prison is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Who Is in Prison loses nothing.Printing guide
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