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.
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.
After all, Brennan observes, common criminals have high recidivism rates, too.
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.
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.
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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Since then, a number of studies have found that youth sex offenders are less likely to reoffend than adult sex offenders, who also have extremely low recidivism rates when compared to people convicted of robbery, burglary, larceny, murder and other non-sex offenses.
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Let's understand for a second that -- I don't know what Senator Graham or Senator Bond said in 2005 when Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made an analogy that if you compared the recidivism rate of detainees at Guantanamo with the U.S. penal system, the detainee rate is less for -- the recidivism rate is less for Guantanamo detainees.
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