Measurement, Risk and Offending Patterns

Concepts about measuring crime and predicting or describing patterns of offending: the gap between crime that actually occurs and crime that is officially recorded, the tendency of a released offender to reoffend, a person who offends persistently across many incidents, statistical methods that estimate an individual's likelihood of future offending, and the process by which offending naturally declines and stops over a person's life. Belongs here: any concept whose content is measuring, counting, predicting or describing a pattern of crime or offending. Does not belong here: concepts about a specific investigative method, grouped under Investigation and Evidence Concepts, or about confinement itself, grouped under Corrections and Institutional Life.