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recidivism

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recidivism: see criminology criminology, the study of crime, society's response to it, and its prevention, including examination of the environmental, hereditary, or psychological causes of crime, modes of criminal investigation and conviction, and the efficacy of punishment or correction (see
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9% of the cohort, those who appeared in court five times or more accounted for 36% of the cohort's court appearances, highlighting the importance of effective juvenile recidivism reduction programs.
The one study Colson and Earley cited that showed a lower recidivism rate for IFI graduates was quickly debunked.
The justification for maintaining such public lists rests on the presumption that sex offenders have higher recidivism rates than other criminals--though Bureau of Justice statistics indicate that rapists are substantially less likely than other violent and nonviolent criminals to be rearrested for the same crime.
 
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