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recidivism

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So they did not come up with a system of sentencing guidelines that were based upon criminological data or recidivism statistics or anything else that might shed light.

From Vox

Access to video visitations has been shown to decrease recidivism, facilitate reentry to the community and bolster parent-child relationships.

From Ozy

In Finland and Denmark, open prisons, which have minimal security and some of the lowest recidivism rates, also allow limited internet access.

Facebook has very little capacity to deal with recidivism, so it’s often the same people coming back after getting banned, often with the same name and the same photo.

From Time

Nemchik said the attorney’s office is confident that recidivism has remained low.

Violent criminals in America have shockingly high rates of recidivism.

Recidivism is part of the social contract in this society of freedom and justice for all.

The goal is to reduce the burden of prison costs while also reducing the recidivism rate.

The state believes that re-creating some of the trappings of military life in a prison setting might reduce recidivism.

He also suggested, however, that any recidivism would be met with a yanking of support.

The foregoing cases, while distinctly abnormal mentally, owe their recidivism to a qualitative rather than a quantitative defect.

Their recidivism is not due to an inability to distinguish between right and wrong.

In time we have come to realize that our punitive methods not only do not tend to do away with recidivism, but enhance it.

Some part of the recidivism here is undoubtedly due to the kind of occupations which a child can carry on while attending school.

The detailed study of criminal heredity and of criminal habit, or recidivism, scarcely forms part of criminal anthropology.

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On this page you'll find 25 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to recidivism, such as: backsliding, relapse, decadence, declension, decline, and degeneration.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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