Chapter 7 Places of deprivation of liberty in France: statistics By Nicolas Fischer48 CNRS - Centre for sociological research on law and penal institutions This data uses principal statistical sources including data on measures deprivation of liberty and the persons concerned. Sources were described more detail in section 10 of the Chief inspector of places of deprivation liberty’s reports for 2009 and 2011. Changes noted were commented upon these reports to which the reader is invited to refer. of in of in As for the other reports, this edition updates the same basic data on the basis of availability of the various sources. The tables or graphs are accompanied by informative notes on methods and short comments. Bringing together in one single document data relating to the deprivation of liberty in the penal area (custody and incarceration), in the health area (psychiatric care without consent) and in the area of deportation of foreign nationals (the execution of measures and detention in illegal immigration centres) should not mask the fact that there are important 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 or measures) or indeed counting persons deprived of their liberty at any given moment. One well understands that the connection between the two is not at all the same according to the areas which arise and from the duration of deprivation of liberty which differs widely for remand, detention, illegal immigrant detention or care under constraint. It is not possible with the state of the available sources 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 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 precious help. This chapter is an update of the statistical series that he initially created, and also includes comments that he suggested. For prison statistics, the author has also referred to the figures given in the most recent report of the Temporary Detention Surveillance Committee (CSDP), to which he also made a contribution. Lastly, the figures taken from the Ministry of the Interior's tool for recording implicated persons and imprisoned persons as well as custody measures, Etat 4001, were made available to us by Renée Zauberman (CNRS-Cesdip), whom the author would like to thank for her invaluable help. 48 128