At the conclusion of the three-year follow-up, 27 of the 31 participants who had reentered their communities did not
recidivate. For the group comparison in Weisz et al.
While the initial evaluation of the IFI program that originated in a Texas correctional facility showed it did not significantly lower recidivism for all participants, (37) a follow-up study found that program participants who were matched with mentors were significantly less likely to
recidivate than were those who did not receive mentors.
Drug court meets these conditions, and as found in the literature, drug court participants are less likely to
recidivate than nonparticipants (Belenko, 2001; Gottfredson et al., 2003; Wilson et al., 2006).
time in prison were less likely to
recidivate (the study did not examine
Despite being a benign lesion it can
recidivate locally, possibly due to muscularis mucosa invasion, described in 41% of the patients in a review by Montgomery et al.
The three to six months after release from jail or prison "is the time when people are most likely to
recidivate," Solomon said.
If the offender is placed on probation, the expectation is that the offender's behavior will be monitored so that he or she does not
recidivate. Recidivism is a fundamental criminal justice concept referring to an offender's relapse into criminal behavior after receiving a sanction or undergoing intervention for a previous crime (Dressler, 2002).
One challenge is distinguishing between the addict who may have a high risk of recidivating for low-level offenses (for example, probation violations for positive drug tests) and a released prisoner with a lower risk to
recidivate but whose offenses have a greater potential for lethality.
All of these crimes are financially motivated and this may suggest that upon exit from prison ex-offenders may
recidivate for financial reasons.
The same basic intuition applies to models of binary outcomes, such as whether a defendant will
recidivate. Some of the recidivism risk prediction instruments include confidence intervals for the probabilities they predict.
Some studies suggest that corrections-based education, vocational, and work-program participants
recidivate at a lower rate and arc twice as likely to find employment after release than nonparticipants.
The study found that those who participated in correctional education programs were 13 percent less likely to
recidivate compared to those who did not participate.
"Educational opportunities are very important to help these inmates not
recidivate," said Kenneth Romanowski, warden of the Macomb Correctional Facility.
unlikely to
recidivate more difficult--in effect, minimizing output.
recidivate within the first three years of being released, the second