This is more than apparent in numerous states where recidivism rates exceed 60 percent.
Recidivism rates for prisoners in various church-based rehabilitation programmes are far lower than average.
The difficulty finding a job is one of the major factors contributing to the high recidivism rate.
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The real rates of recidivism are much higher because so few offenders are caught, let alone convicted.
Recidivism, currently estimated at 20 percent and including al Qaeda and Taliban leadership figures, remains a major concern.
Although outpatient treatment is modestly correlated with reduced recidivism, the efficacy of institution-based treatment has proved difficult to measure.
Study after study after study has linked prison education programs with reduced recidivism and more productive lives post-incarceration.
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The Prison Fellowship programme in Texas has a recidivism rate under 5%, compared with a national average of around 50%.
If their chances of recidivism can be reduced by 30%, it would clearly affect the total crime numbers in many societies.
The Baltimore Sun revealed that the juvenile boot-camps that she championed had degenerated into arenas for sadistic beatings, rampant drug use and skyrocketing recidivism.
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For this high recidivism rates, ravaged families, and maladjusted neighborhoods Americans pay dearly.
After all, Brennan observes, common criminals have high recidivism rates, too.
Not closing Guantanamo (sounded good on the campaign trail) but would have been a big mistake proven by the high rate of recidivism of released detainees.
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Judges already provide such instructions during trial, when, for example, the prosecution shows a suspect has been convicted of prior crimes to provide evidence of recidivism.
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Social impact bonds, which involve equity and are not bonds in the traditional sense, recently debuted in the UK to fund prison recidivism programs there.
"What's clear is we are not seeing recidivism on the decline, " said a defense official who declined to be identified because of the sensitivity of the issue.
But a meta-analysis of 23 studies by Karl Hanson of Canada's department of public safety found that psychological therapy was associated with a 43% drop in recidivism.
Additionally, it is clearly evident that there needs to be continued improvement in services delivered to returning parents to reduce recidivism rates in this segment of our population.
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"What's clear is we are not seeing recidivism on the decline, " according to a defense official who declined to be named because of the sensitivity of the issue.
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This 8.8% rate is also far smaller than the recidivism rate of criminals in the United States, which currently stands around 67.5%, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
The evidence so far is strong: of the 800 prisoners who went through her first prisoner entrepreneurship program in Texas, recidivism is just five percent and about 80 businesses have launched.
The Pentagon's report on recidivism identified almost 30 former detainees confirmed or suspected to have gone on to fight, including al-Shihri and al-Awfi, and includes examples of what these men did after their release.
Model programmes in juvenile-justice reform do exist: the Missouri Division of Youth Services, for example, uses a relatively low-cost, individualised, community-based approach with recidivism rates consistently hovering around 10%, one of the lowest in the country.
If we are serious about reducing substance abuse, crime and recidivism, and saving taxpayers money, then we must accept that our criminal-justice system is filled with seriously addicted people who need treatment to change their behavior.
Candace Kruttschnitt and Christopher Uggen of the University of Minnesota and Kelly Shelton of the Minnesota Department of Corrections tracked 556 sex offenders on probation and found less recidivism among those with a history of stable employment.
California has had a high recidivism rate (of 70%) in part because every released inmate used to be placed on parole and many were returned to prison for small violations such as missing appointments or failing alcohol tests.
Pentagon officials have not released updated statistics on recidivism, but the unclassified report from April says 74 individuals, or 14 percent of former detainees, have turned to or are suspected of having turned to terrorism activity since their release.
The fact that teens learn the consequences of harmful behavior as they age is part of why recidivism rates are low among youth offenders, including those who have committed sex crimes, especially as more time passes since the offense, she said.
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