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Showing 1 to 20 of 288 for “"Recidivism"”.
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Essays in Policing and Recidivism
<p>This dissertation consists of three chapters in public economics, with a particular focus on the factors that influence officials in the justice system and the role of deterrence. All three chapters assess, in part, the extent to which traffic penalties influence the behavior of drivers, though …
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Predictors of recidivism in adolescent offenders
… low empathy/remorse) by probation officers. Recidivism over 12 months was assessed from official records. Results indicated that after controlling for race, groups differed on several risk factors, with significant differences noted between violent and non-violent sex offenders for anger …
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Prison Education Program Participation and Recidivism
… of prison education program participation on recidivism rates. I tested the hypothesis that inmates who actively participate in educational programs have a lower likelihood of being reconvicted. The purpose of this study is to help identify correctional programs that have a positive impact on …
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Moving Toward A Holistic Understanding Of Recidivism
… populations in the United States. Finally, the recidivism rate, the rate at which former inmates recriminalize and return to prison, has remained at 75% for the past 40 years.” (p. 2) The findings of Porter et al. are counter intuitive. First, young adults represent the highest demographic group …
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Restorative Justice and Recidivism: A Meta-Analysis
… programs produce benefits because they reduce recidivism rates. Is that true? I conducted a meta-analysis on 24 published studies to evaluate the claims for effectiveness and to discover what aspects of restorative justice programs are most effective in reducing recidivism, as well as what …
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TRAUMA RECIDIVISM: THREAT ORIENTATIONS AND RECURRENT INJURY PERCEPTIONS
… (PLRI) of individuals deemed at risk for trauma recidivism (TR).</p> <p><strong>Background:</strong> Injuries and violence are the leading cause of traumatic death among persons aged 1 to 44 in the United States. Trauma recidivism occurs when an individual experiences more than one significant …
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Characteristics of Recidivism among Intensive and Regular Probationers.
… were significant variables correlated to recidivism. These findings are consistent with prior research and provide information that can be helpful to probation and parole officers in their supervision of offenders as well as to the criminal justice system when placing offenders on …
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Adolescent sexual abusers: the prediction of sexual recidivism
… and practice of the assessment of risk of sexual recidivism within the literature, and an empirically developed offence and victim information based typology of adolescent sexual abusers were the areas of interest within this thesis, with the intention to examine the utility of offender types or …
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Rehabilitation Programmes and Recidivism in the Zambian Prison System
… into law abiding citizens, the high rate of recidivism (i.e, the return of ex-prisoners to prison) shows that rehabilitation does not have the intended effect on a large percentage of prisoners as the following table shows: The percentage of recidivism does not seem to decline, it is high, …
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Rehabilitation Programmes and Recidivism in the Zambian Prison System
… into law abiding citizens, the high rate of recidivism (i.e, the return of ex-prisoners to prison) shows that rehabilitation does not have the intended effect on a large percentage of prisoners as the following table shows: The percentage of recidivism does not seem to decline, it is high, …
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The Young Firelighter: Profile Characteristics and Recidivism Risk Factors
… Australian sample and to determine the rate of recidivism and identify variables that may predict firelighting recidivism risk.
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CAN REHABILITATIVE PROGRAMS REDUCE THE RECIDIVISM OF JUVENILE OFFENDERS?
… community. Over time, studies have seen juvenile recidivism rise and fall. Counties and states do not keep solid empirical data on recidivism because minors are constantly reentering juvenile detention centers. States and counties only keep compacted empirical data on arrest of minors. It makes it …
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Assessing the Effects of the Ignition-Interlock Device on Recidivism
… the ignition-interlock device’s effect on DWI recidivism when used during different post-arrest phases, including pretrial, probation, and combined pretrial and probation combined. Propensity score matching is used to account for the selection bias commonly present in observational studies of …
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Factors affecting recidivism at a transitional shelter for the homeless
This thesis examines factors affecting recidivism (shelter reentry) among two-parent households, female-headed households, and single women, through a study of selected households utilizing a transitional shelter for the homeless in Las Vegas, Nevada. The paper touches on the history of …
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The effects of OWI victim impact courses on offender recidivism
1 PDF file (vii, 62 leaves ; 28 cm.)
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Exploring Locus of Control in Offender Cognition and Recidivism Paradigms
… involvement as possible antecedents to criminal recidivism. The surveys examined whether there was any connection between legal involvement frequency and the externalization of locus of control. We investigated external locus of control with specific respect to involvement with the law, the …
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Crowd Compositions for Bias Detection and Mitigation in Predicting Recidivism
This thesis explores an approach to predicting recidivism by leveraging crowdsourcing, contrasting traditional judicial discretion and algorithmic models. Instead of relying on judges or algorithms, participants predicted the likelihood of re-offending using the COMPAS dataset, which includes …
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