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Psychiatric Services, 1984 The purpose of this book is to present a thorough analysis of the concept of recidivism. The first half of the book describes the role that different definitions of recidivism have played in evaluating correctional goals and programs and shows how ...
Michael D. Maltz (7938221)
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, 2018 High rates of rearrest and recidivism, especially among drug-involved individuals, are of grave concern for the justice system and society at large. This chapter looks at the factors affecting recidivism rates of substance-involved individuals involved in the justice system. We begin by considering the complexity of measuring recidivism and the meaning
Faye S. Taxman, Mary Mun
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Recidivism among prisoners with severe mental disorders
Heliyon, 2023 Introduction: Mental disorders are common among prison inmates, with a high rate of recidivism found among those with severe mental disorders. In Japan, the number of inmates with mental disorders has been increasing with the increasing rate of ...
Marika Okamura +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022 BackgroundOffenders with intellectual disability (ID) constitute a distinct subgroup of offenders with mental disorders. Regarding criminal recidivism, it is unclear whether or not offenders with ID in forensic psychiatric settings differ from offenders ...
Hanna Edberg +12 more
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Sexual Offending, 2021 Risk assessment is routinely applied in forensic decision-making. Although relative risk information from risk scales is robust across diverse samples and settings, estimates of the absolute probability of sexual recidivism are not. Nonetheless, absolute
L. Maaike Helmus
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General and violent recidivism of former forensic psychiatric patients in Finland
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023 BackgroundForensic psychiatric care in Finland is provided to individuals who have committed a crime due to a serious mental disorder and are in need of psychiatric care. The reconviction (recidivism) rates for this patient group vary in time and between
Ilkka Ojansuu +9 more
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PLoS ONE, 2023 The contribution of mental illness, substance use, and appetitive aggression to recidivism has significant policy and practice implications. Offenders with untreated mental illness have a higher recidivism rate and a greater number of criminogenic risk ...
Kwanele Shishane +2 more
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Longitudinal Patterns of Sexual Recidivism by Age Over a 25-Year Follow-Up in California
Sexual Offending, 2022 This study followed 146 sexual offenders released from prison custody for a period of 25-years. Overall, 34% of individuals committed at least one sexual reoffense in the 25 years following release from incarceration.
Stephanie Brooks Holliday +5 more
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Incarceration, Recidivism and Employment [PDF]
Journal of Political Economy, 2016 Understanding whether, and in what situations, time spent in prison is criminogenic or preventive has proven challenging due to data availability and correlated unobservables. This paper overcomes these challenges in the context of Norway’s criminal justice system, offering new insights into how incarceration affects subsequent crime and employment. We
Bhuller, Manudeep +3 more
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Information, 2023 Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be very beneficial in the criminal justice system for predicting the risk of recidivism. AI provides unrivalled high computing power, speed, and accuracy; all harnessed to strengthen the efficiency in predicting convicted
Michael Mayowa Farayola +4 more
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