Negative Effects Of Recidivism

Recidivism and Who is More Likely to Recidivate: Culture and the Criminal Justice System

Introduction

Throughout this paper one will come to understand recidivisim and why those who are more likely to recidivate

Recidivism

First one must understand that recidivism is the likelihood that a person who has been through the criminal justice system for a specific criminal act, returns to perform such acts after being released back into society. In short, it is the, “probability that released offenders commit new offenses” (Duwe and Rocque 2017:236).

“Reliability refers to consistency in terms of how well items in an instrument correlate with one another, providing justification for the creation of a scale or index (DeVillis, 2012), or consistency

Just as Hirschi and Cohen have observed, it is an easy choice to be "against criminology," especially "administrative criminology” (Galliher 1999:59).

Conclusion

This article will be used in my research paper in order to further examine recidivism in the United States. In order to do so I would like to consider that a possible cause of our recidivism rates is due to the way our criminal justice system is set up. We are not really focused in rehabilitating our criminals. I also liked that this article brought into light that there is a specific group in the United States that is characterized to be young males who have committed property crimes, to be the group more likely to recidivate. I would also like to look into this aspect of recidivism deeper in order to see why that is. Is it resulted of how are criminal justice system is set up? Is it a result of our society and culture? Would intersectionality play a role in these findings? I have yet to completely decide on which route I would like to take for this research project. All I know is that the main concept would be on