The phrase "avoid recidivism" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in discussions about criminal justice, rehabilitation, or efforts to prevent repeat offenses by individuals who have previously been convicted of crimes.
Example: "The new rehabilitation program aims to help offenders reintegrate into society and avoid recidivism."
Alternatives: "prevent reoffending" or "reduce repeat offenses".
Juliet Lyon, of the Prison Reform Trust, said the figures showed that a home, a job and a supportive family were important in helping criminals avoid recidivism.
These findings suggest that attitudes may be useful predictors of DUI and should be taken into account in interventions designed to avoid recidivism.
This article reviews the literature on HIV-related interventions for U.S. women prisoners, with a focus on identifying strategies that enabled women to practice safer sex, reduce drug use, and to avoid recidivism.
He decided to follow a former prisoner through the rehabilitation program at St. Leonard's House, a Chicago halfway house, with an impressive-sounding track record: almost 90percentt of the men who complete its four-month program avoid recidivism, compared with Illinois's prevailing rate of 50percentt.
"There are lots of programs designed for ex-offenders, to help them get past substance abuse, anger issues, to help them reintegrate and avoid recidivism," Karen Daniel, the director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions, at Northwestern University's School of Law, said.
Spending money on rehabilitation, said Senate leader Darrell Steinberg, who led the opposition to Brown's original plan, would reduce crowding over time by helping inmates avoid recidivism.
As DR programmes aim at avoiding recidivism, but some participants do not profit sufficiently from these interventions and tend to re-offend despite participating in a DR measure, the international research team considered it necessary to analyze the cognitive affective and behavioural processes participants undergo while attending a DR programme.
At the time, then Corrections Minister John Hargreaves went as far as telling the ABC: "One of the biggest problems of avoiding recidivism is the restoration of the relationship between a prisoner and his partner when they come out..
The gray tints of a moderate socialism were enlivened into red: It is always difficult for socialism to avoid either the recidivism into the conservative substance it replaces or its logical consummation in communism.
Nevertheless, the necessity for a strict follow-up program to avoid delays in the detection of recidivism may cause great hardship for patients, particularly those who are unwilling or unable to make frequent visits to clinics.
Even poor quality programmes perform no worse than detention in terms of recidivism, and often better, although care must be taken to avoid 'net-widening'.
