Chapter 7 Places of deprivation of liberty in France: statistics By Nicolas Fischer74 CNRS – Centre for Sociological Research on Law and Penal Institutions This data uses principal statistical sources including data on measures of deprivation of liberty and the persons concerned. Sources were described in more detail in section 10 of the Chief Inspector of places of deprivation of liberty’s reports for 2009 and 2011. Changes noted were commented upon in these reports, to which the reader is invited to refer. As for the other reports, this edition updates the same basic data on the basis of availability of the various sources. The tables and graphs are accompanied by informative notes on methods and short comments. Bringing together in one single document data relating to deprivation of liberty in the penal field (custody and incarceration), health field (psychiatric care without consent) and the field of deportation of foreign nationals (the execution of measures and detention in illegal immigration centres) should not mask the fact that there are major differences in statistical concepts characterising them. It is still important to ask oneself what sort of numbering methods are being used: moving from liberty to deprivation of liberty (flows of persons and measures) or indeed counting persons deprived of their liberty at any given moment. One well understands that, depending on field, the connection between the two is not at all the same, due to durations of deprivation of liberty which differ widely for remand, detention, illegal immigrant detention or care under constraint. Given the state of the available sources, it is not possible to draw a parallel of these sizes for the various places of deprivation of liberty in a single table. This year once again, the author would like to extend his sincere thanks to Bruno Aubusson de Cavarlay (CNRS-Cesdip), author of the statistics shown in the reports from 2009 to 2014, for his advice and invaluable help. This chapter is an update of the statistical series that he initially created, and also includes comments that he suggested. 74 147