Sentence examples for decrease recidivism from inspiring English sources

DTCs decrease recidivism by an average of 10%% for adults but graduation rates vary widely from 10 90 % (Schaffer 2006).

In recent years, many states across the U.S. have overhauled their JJ systems in order to reduce the number of youth in detention or locked facilities and decrease recidivism.

The first is that duration of incarceration does not decrease recidivism.

In this example, I am just talking about in-prison programs; add to this equation post-release support and we can further decrease recidivism.

The event highlighted the fact that correctional education programs have been shown to save dollars and greatly decrease recidivism rates, which means they increase public safety.

"It's the college experience -- and particularly graduation or completion of any diploma, some sense of walking down the aisle and completion -- that significantly decreases recidivism rates," says Michelle Fine, a professor of psychology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Conversely, recognition and treatment of health needs, particularly substance use disorders, have been linked to decreased recidivism (Wooditch et al., 2014; Lamberti, 2016).

A randomized control trial showed that women in a gender-responsive drug court treatment program stay enrolled longer and reported improved post-traumatic stress disorder symptomology compared to women in a mixed-gender drug court program, but were just as likely to have reduced substance use and decreased recidivism as mixed-gender participants (Mesina et al. [2012]).

Detained youth have high rates of psychopathology [ 3, 4] and evidence suggests that connection to effective mental health treatment results in decreased recidivism rates [ 5- 8].

An impressive 2014 meta-analysis by the RAND Corporation concluded that inmates who participated in academic and vocational programs exhibited a 43% decrease in recidivism, were more likely to find jobs, and scored higher on verbal and mathematic proficiency tests.

Program effectiveness was assessed by comparing program costs to incarceration costs avoided due to decreases in recidivism.