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Background: Comparing recidivism rates between countries may provide useful information about the relative effectiveness of different criminal justice policies.
Denis Yukhnenko+2 more
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Recidivism rates of female offenders discharged from forensic psychiatric treatment [PDF]
ObjectiveRecidivism rates comprise an essential component in comprehensive risk assessment and should reflect the specific reference group of the individual being assessed.
Juliane Mayer+7 more
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Prediction Machine Learning Models on Propensity Convicts to Criminal Recidivism
Increasing internal state security requires an understanding of the factors that influence the commission of repetitive crimes (recidivism) since the crime is not caused by public danger but by the criminal person.
Olha Kovalchuk+5 more
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Recent research suggests that sexual recidivism rates have been declining, which contrasts with observations regarding general recidivism rates as well as perceptions of sexual reoffending risk.
P. Lussier+3 more
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Fair prediction with disparate impact: A study of bias in recidivism prediction instruments [PDF]
Recidivism prediction instruments (RPIs) provide decision-makers with an assessment of the likelihood that a criminal defendant will reoffend at a future point in time. Although such instruments are gaining increasing popularity across the country, their
Alexandra Chouldechova
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Recent evolution in the field of data science has revealed the potential utility of machine learning (ML) applied to criminal justice. Hence, the literature focused on finding better techniques to predict criminal recidivism risk is rapidly flourishing ...
G. Travaini+4 more
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The Impact of Incarceration on Recidivism
The US prison population stands at 1.43 million persons, with an additional 740,000 persons in local jails. Nearly all will eventually return to society.
Charles E. Loeffler, D. Nagin
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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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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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General and violent recidivism of former forensic psychiatric patients in Finland
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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