Criminal Justice Recidivism
Rethinking The Criminal Justice System
Recidivism rate is an enormous problem in the criminal justice system. Recidivism is one of the most fundamental concepts in criminal justice. It discusses a person's reversion into criminal behavior, often after the person receives sanctions or undergoes intervention for a previous crime. Recidivism is measured by criminal acts that lead to re-arrest, reconviction or return to prison with or without a new sentence during a three-year period following the prisoner's release. According to the National Statistics on Recidivism One study tracked 404,638 prisoners in 30 states after their release from prison in 2005.The researchers found that: Within three years of release, about two-thirds (67.8 percent) of released prisoners were rearrested. …show more content…
Additionally, these individual will have a hard time finding employment based on the crime they have committed. Secondly, when the situation gets hard they will go back to a life of crime because that’s the only thing they know. Third of all, after incarceration they returned to the same environment that got them in trouble with the law. I do agree with James Q. Wilson and Richard J. Herrnstein on the observation of the earliest stage of life cycle. The performance of police department can be determined by the crime rate in the area as many people stated. I strongly disagree with that statement, to reduce crime in the community it has to start within the community more likely with the people who live in the area. If the government focused on the bad area that constantly and reform them with better living, school, health, better infrastructure. Apply the broken window theory in these areas start with the people, create jobs for the felons to support themselves, I assure the crime rate will be much better and the recidivism problem will be a lesser problem to deal with. After all that is done, then, we can move to the community policing propose a
Recidivism rate is an enormous problem in the criminal justice system. Recidivism is one of the most fundamental concepts in criminal justice. It discusses a person's reversion into criminal behavior, often after the person receives sanctions or undergoes intervention for a previous crime. Recidivism is measured by criminal acts that lead to re-arrest, reconviction or return to prison with or without a new sentence during a three-year period following the prisoner's release. According to the National Statistics on Recidivism One study tracked 404,638 prisoners in 30 states after their release from prison in 2005.The researchers found that: Within three years of release, about two-thirds (67.8 percent) of released prisoners were rearrested. …show more content…
Additionally, these individual will have a hard time finding employment based on the crime they have committed. Secondly, when the situation gets hard they will go back to a life of crime because that’s the only thing they know. Third of all, after incarceration they returned to the same environment that got them in trouble with the law. I do agree with James Q. Wilson and Richard J. Herrnstein on the observation of the earliest stage of life cycle. The performance of police department can be determined by the crime rate in the area as many people stated. I strongly disagree with that statement, to reduce crime in the community it has to start within the community more likely with the people who live in the area. If the government focused on the bad area that constantly and reform them with better living, school, health, better infrastructure. Apply the broken window theory in these areas start with the people, create jobs for the felons to support themselves, I assure the crime rate will be much better and the recidivism problem will be a lesser problem to deal with. After all that is done, then, we can move to the community policing propose a