Chart: England & Wales has highest per-capita prison population in Western Europe
While Turkey has Europe’s highest imprisonment rate, England and Wales locks up more people per 100,000 population than any other western European country.
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Data source: Eurostat, 2019 database tables crim_pris_cap.
Matt Ashby
Lecturer in Crime Science
I am a lecturer in crime science at the Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science at University College London (UCL). I am interested in crime analysis – particularly how crime concentrates in time and space – in crime prevention and in transport crime.