ENDNOTES
Endnotes
All website links cited were accurate at the
time of going to press in April 2019.
PART 1
Crime and imprisonment
1 UN Office on Drugs and Crime, International
Classification of Crime for Statistical
Purposes, March 2015.
2 International Centre for the Prevention
of Crime, 6th International Report on
Crime Prevention and Community Safety,
2018, p3.
3 Katie Stone and Sam Shirley–Beavan,
Harm Reduction International, The Global
State of Harm Reduction 2018, 6th edition,
11 December 2018.
4 The United Nations Office on Drugs
and Crime has observed that ‘the term
‘cybercrime’ has been used to describe a
wide range of offences, including offences
against computer data and systems (such
as hacking), computer-related forgery and
fraud (such as phishing), content offences
(such as disseminating material relating to
the sexual abuse of children) and copyright
offences (such as disseminating pirated
content).’ Guide for the thematic discussion
on criminal justice responses to prevent and
counter cybercrime in all its forms, including
through the strengthening of cooperation
at the national and international levels,
February 2018, E/CN.15/2018/6.
5 International Centre for the Prevention
of Crime, 6th International Report on
Crime Prevention and Community Safety,
2018, p4.
6 UN Commission on Crime Prevention and
Criminal Justice, Twenty–eighth session,
20–24 May 2019, Note by the Secretariat
on world crime trends and emerging
issues and responses in the field of crime
prevention and criminal justice, 2019,
E/CN.15/2019/x, p3.
7 Ibid, p4.
8 Know Violence in Childhood, Ending
Violence in Childhood: Global Report 2017,
2017, Foreword.
9 Roy Walmsley, Institute for Criminal Policy
Research, World Prison Population, 12th
edition, 2018. It should be noted that the
data used for this estimate is not complete
and does not include information from
Eritrea, Somalia and the Democratic
People’s Republic of (North) Korea, and that
the data for China and Guinea Bissau are
incomplete.
10 Ibid.
11 Ibid.
12 ‘Russia closes 93 prisons in 7 years due
to more lenient laws’, RT, 3rd September
2018, www.rt.com/russia/437479-russiacloses-93-prisons.
13 ‘Prison population fell almost two
times over eight years in Kazakhstan
– Minister of Internal Affairs’, BNews
KZ, 14 June 2018, bnews.kz/en/news/
prison_population_fell_almost_two_times_
over_eight_years_in_kazakhstan__minister_
of_internal_affairs.
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14 ‘Kazakhstan’s prison population drops
dramatically in criminal justice reform
breakthrough’, Astana Times, 17 February
2018, astanatimes.com/2018/02/
kazakhstans-prison-population-dropsdramatically-in-criminal-justice-reformbreakthrough.
15 This evidence comes from many different
countries but see, for example, Judge
Andrew Becroft, Youth Offending: Factors
that Contribute and How the System
Responds, Delivered at Symposium Child
and Youth Offenders: What Works, 2006,
www.beehive.govt.nz/speech/addresschild-and-youth-offenders-what-works.
16 Institute for Criminal Policy Research, World
Prison Brief Database, www.prisonstudies.
org/highest-to-lowest/occupancylevel?field_region_taxonomy_tid=All.
17 Ibid.
18 ‘Where 518 Inmates Sleep in Space
for 170, and Gangs Hold It Together’,
New York Times, 7th January 2019,
www.nytimes.com/2019/01/07/world/asia/
philippines-manila-jail-overcrowding.html.
19 Cited in ‘Overcrowded PH jails housing
over 146,000 inmates, above 20k
capacity: COA’, ABS–CBN, 3 July 2018,
news.abs-cbn.com/news/07/03/18/
overcrowded-ph-jails-housing-over-146000inmates-above-20k-capacity-coa.
20 Penal Reform International, Ten-Point
Plan to Reduce Prison Overcrowding,
2012. See also, UN Office on Drugs and
Crime, Handbook on Strategies to Reduce
Overcrowding in Prisons, 2013.
21 ‘Rwanda releases 2,000 prisoners, including
opposition leader Victoire Ingabire’,
Deutsche Welt, 15th September 2018,
www.dw.com/en/rwanda-releases-2000prisoners-including-opposition-leadervictoire-ingabire/a-45498354.
22 ‘Mass Presidential Pardon Unlikely to
Improve Bolivia Prisons’, InSight Crime,
6 April 2018, www.insightcrime.org/news/
brief/mass-presidential-pardon-unlikelyimprove-bolivia-prisons.
23 ‘Mnangagwa pardons 3,000 prisoners’,
Zimbabwe Daily, 21 March 2018,
www.thezimbabwedaily.com/news/195139mnangagwa-pardons-3000-prisoners.html.
24 Human Rights Watch, World Report 2019,
January 2019, p162, (Côte d’Ivoire).
25 ‘710 prisoners released per presidential
pardon’, Egypt Today, 11 July 2018,
www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/53787/710prisoners-released-per-presidential-pardon.
26 ‘Israel: Public Defense: No New Detainees
Until Prison Overcrowding Ends’, Haaretz,
26 March 2018 www.haaretz.com/israelnews/.premium-israel-public-defense-nonew-detainees-until-prison-overcrowdingends-1.5939876.
27 European Committee for the Prevention
of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading
Treatment or Punishment, Living space
per prisoner in prison establishments: CPT
standards, December 2015, p1, p4.
28 ‘Pay-to-stay prison block ‘to mitigate
jail overcrowding’, Phnom Penh Post,
3 October 2018, www.phnompenhpost.
com/national/pay-stay-prison-blockmitigate-jail-overcrowding.
29 ‘New prison planned to help ease the
shortfall of prison places in Slovakia’,
The Slovak Spectator, 11 January 2018,
spectator.sme.sk/c/20735840/new-prisonplanned-to-help-ease-the-shortfall-ofprison-places-in-slovakia.html.
30 ‘Makeshift sheds proposed as jails
overcrowded’, New Age, 20 August
2018, www.newagebd.net/article/48895/
makeshift-sheds-proposed-as-jailsovercrowded.
31 ‘FG sets up panel on prison decongestion’,
Vanguard, 30 October 2017,
www.vanguardngr.com/2017/10/fg-setspanel-prison-decongestion.
32 African Commission on Human and
Peoples’ Rights, Principles on the
Decriminalisation of Petty Offences in Africa,
2018, Foreword.
33 For the purposes of this report, ‘civil
society’ is defined as ‘the arena, outside
of the family, the state, and the market,
which is created by individual and collective
actions, organisations and institutions
to advance shared interests’ as cited
in CIVICUS, Enabling Environment,
www.civicus.org/index.php/what-we-do/
defend/civicus-enabling-environment.
34 Association for the Prevention of Torture,
List of Designated NPM by regions &
countries, apt.ch/en/list-of-designatednpm-by-regions-and-countries.
35 Association for the Prevention of Torture
and Inter-American Institute for Human
Rights, Optional Protocol to the UN
Convention against Torture: Implementation
Manual, 2010, p215.
36 Douglas Rutzen, ‘Authoritarianism Goes
Global (II): Civil Society Under Assault’,
Journal of Democracy, Volume 26, Issue 4,
October 2015, p30.
37 CIVICUS, State of Civil Society Report
2018, Year in Review: Top Ten Trends, 2018,
Introduction.
38 ‘Civic Freedom Monitor: Egypt’,
International Centre for Not-for-Profit Law,
4 February 2019, www.icnl.org/research/
monitor/egypt.html.
39 United Nations General Assembly, Report
of the Special Rapporteur on the rights
to freedom of peaceful assembly and of
association, 26 July 2018, A/HRC/38/34,
p6, para 28.
40 Council of Europe, Recommendation
CM/Rec 8 of the Committee of Ministers to Member States concerning
restorative justice in criminal matters,
2018, www.coe.int/en/web/prison/home/-/
asset_publisher/ky2olXXXogcx/content/
recommendation-cm-rec-2018-8?inheritRedirect=false&redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.coe.int%2Fen%2Fweb%2Fprison%2Fhome%3Fp_p_id%3D101_INSTANCE_ky2olXXXogcx%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dnormal%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26p_p_col_
id%3Dcolumn-1%26p_p_col_count%3D5.
41 See also: Dr Ian Marder, ‘Developing
restorative justice in law, policy and
practice: Learning from around the
world’, PRI Blog, 10 January 2019,
www.penalreform.org/blog/developingrestorative-justice-in-law-policy-andpractice-learning-from-around-the-world.
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