Acidivism And Recidivism

The recidivism and punitive action against minorities

According to the National Institute of Justice recidivism is one of the most fundamental concepts in criminal justice. Recidivism refers to a person’s reoccurrence or continuation of criminal behavior that persists after the person receives their sanctions or arbitration. Researchers from the statistics of The Bureau of Justice found that two-thirds, 67.8%, of released prisoners were rearrested within three years. About three quarters, 79.6%, were rearrested within five years of their release. At the end of the year, 56.7%, which is more than half of those prisoners were rearrested. The most likely to be rearrested were property offenders, 82.1% of released offenders were rearrested for

The study found that within three years two thirds of those prisoners were rearrested. Punitive is inflicting or intended as punishment but this punishment should not be compared to or identified as punishment that occurs prior to disciplinary actions carried out by a parent. It can also describe the unpleasant result of an action on a large scale, like the punitive effects higher taxes will have on the middle class. This paper will focus in depth on the prejudices of the recidivism and punitive action against minorities. To begin to understand what is meant by recidivism and its complexities we have to first examine the components of crimes and there complex consequences. We cannot have a comprehensive explanation for the occurrence of prisionization and recidivism until we consider the crimes and persons involved. After they have served out their sentences, the treatment among criminals is a controversial subject which is then swayed by personal opinions of the appropriate treatment for the specific crime. The biggest complication here is providing an adequate amount of substantial evidence that proves a person has been reconvicted by their own faults, not based on the opportunities that society provides them

“Prisonization deepens antisocial tendencies, increasing the likelihood of future criminal activity” (Hofer, 1988). Viewed as an adaptive attempt to form a functional social identity within the depriving environment of prison, Clemmer formed a bias functional social identity within in the prison environment. Recidivism is viewed as being the result of myriad social and environmental influences. No one has devised anm direct method that corrects societies treatment towards violent outcasts. How ever ____ states that the aspect of prisonization and recidivism lluminates the institutional environment with pathological aspects of the anti the practices in penitentiaries prone prisoner, criminal, inmate, felon, convict, and them with titles such as prisoner, inmate, give people that have committed crimes

Unfortunately some crimes are driven by needs of survival; despite the consequences one can infer that once given little options a person will do whatever means necessary in order to survive it’s instinctive. A big issue here is that we have to focus on the fact that these criminals are still people and yet they are still being treated as cattle with no significance besides th benefit of ones own pure entertainment. We watched a