The phrase "avoiding recidivism" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in discussions related to criminal justice, rehabilitation, or prevention of repeat offenses.
Example: "The new program focuses on avoiding recidivism by providing support and resources to former offenders."
Alternatives: "preventing reoffending" or "reducing repeat offenses".
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..
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
For prisoners like my sister, who have already been severed from their communities in many ways, that maternal-baby bond could be a key path to reconnection, heightening their chances (pdf) of avoiding re-offense and recidivism.
Avoiding medication overuse is an important aspect of headache care [3]; once established, medication overuse may be difficult to treat, and recidivism is common [90].
Program effectiveness was assessed by comparing program costs to incarceration costs avoided due to decreases in recidivism.
