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recidivism
[ ri-sid-uh-viz-uhm ]
noun
- repeated or habitual relapse, as into crime.
- Psychiatry. the chronic tendency toward repetition of criminal or antisocial behavior patterns.
recidivism
/ rɪˈsɪdɪˌvɪzəm /
noun
- habitual relapse into crime
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Derived Forms
- reˈcidivist, nounadjective
- reˌcidiˈvistic, adjective
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Other Words From
- re·cidi·vist noun adjective
- re·cidi·vistic re·cidi·vous adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of recidivism1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of recidivism1
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Example Sentences
Violent criminals in America have shockingly high rates of recidivism.
Recidivism is part of the social contract in this society of freedom and justice for all.
The goal is to reduce the burden of prison costs while also reducing the recidivism rate.
The state believes that re-creating some of the trappings of military life in a prison setting might reduce recidivism.
He also suggested, however, that any recidivism would be met with a yanking of support.
The foregoing cases, while distinctly abnormal mentally, owe their recidivism to a qualitative rather than a quantitative defect.
Their recidivism is not due to an inability to distinguish between right and wrong.
In time we have come to realize that our punitive methods not only do not tend to do away with recidivism, but enhance it.
Some part of the recidivism here is undoubtedly due to the kind of occupations which a child can carry on while attending school.
The detailed study of criminal heredity and of criminal habit, or recidivism, scarcely forms part of criminal anthropology.
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