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Recidivism

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Also Known As Reoffending

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The tendency of a convicted offender to reoffend after release, commonly measured by rearrest, reconviction or reincarceration within a set period, and used as a standard metric for evaluating correctional and rehabilitation programs.

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Penology and corrections 1
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Actuarial Risk Assessment, Foundational Concepts
Source Wikipedia: COMPAS (software)
Desistance, Foundational Concepts
Habitual Offender, Foundational Concepts

A habitual offender is, by definition, an instance of recidivism; the two concepts describe the same repeat-offending pattern from the offender's status and the act's recurrence respectively.

Source Wikipedia: Habitual Offender
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1. Siegel, Criminology: The Core
Larry J. Siegel, Cengage Learning
Wikipedia: Recidivism
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Wikipedia: Recidivism
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Recidivism is the reversion of an individual to criminal behavior after they have been convicted of a prior offense, sentenced, and (presumably) corrected.
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Wikipedia: Habitual Offender
Associated With: Habitual Offender, Lead sectionView the Source
Wikipedia: COMPAS (software)
Associated With: Actuarial Risk Assessment, Opening paragraph
Quote, Associated With: Actuarial Risk Assessment, Opening paragraph
used by U.S. courts to assess the likelihood of a defendant becoming a recidivist
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