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Convicted Penal Admission by Offence Group

Data from Jan 2007 to Dec 2022Updated 6 months ago

SPS (Singapore Prison Service)

Convicted penal inmates admitted in each year breakdown by offence group.

Convicted Penal Admission by Offence Group

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ConvictedPenalAdmissionbyOffenceGroup.csv (160 rows, 4.6 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Admissions By Main Offence Group Text	Number Of Admissions Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)10.0%
2007	Crimes Against Person	817
2007	Property Crimes	2450
2007	Commercial Crimes	1005
2007	Drug Offences	2164
2007	Immigration Offences	7687
2007	Crimes Against Public Order	285
2007	Customs Offences	na
2007	Crimes Under Women's Charter	142
2007	Traffic Offences	824
2007	Other Offences	3599

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Admissions By Main Offence Group	admissions_by_main_offence_group	Text	-	-
Number Of Admissions	number_of_admissions	Numeric	Number of Inmates	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the data catalogue of this dataset. For a complete guide on query parameters and syntax, please refer to the API documentation. Try it out on your browser to see the response schema.

import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_e618ac4c45fce4110df180ba905215f7"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Singapore Prison Service. (2018). Convicted Penal Admission by Offence Group (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved November 22, 2024 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_e618ac4c45fce4110df180ba905215f7/view

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Created on

17 Jul 2018

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Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

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SPS (Singapore Prison Service)

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