Sentence examples for recidivism risk from inspiring English sources

Another example comes from the principles of effective rehabilitation, which hold that treatment is most effective at preventing crime when its intensity matches the offender's recidivism risk level (Gendreau 1996), and offenders at the greatest risk of recidivating benefit most from intense rehabilitation programs (Lowenkamp and Latessa 2004).

"Pentagon leadership and legal, combined with the task force down at Gitmo, were not prepared to sign off on the recidivism risk," the former White House official said.

But the Obama Administration has to decide whether he poses a recidivism risk — an assessment that has to be made, in part, on the basis of statements elicited through torture.

This was also before legal and budgetary pressures forced prison officials to prematurely release inmates, even those with a significant recidivism risk (in California, as many as 58 percent commit new crimes within three years).

Under Zimring's plan, if an adolescent with a sex offense goes on to commit another offense as an adult, law enforcement would be able to access the juvenile records to help assess the offender's recidivism risk and make judicial decisions accordingly.

Despite the earlier release of IDC participants, no difference in recidivism risk was apparent.

This article presents findings from an evaluation of the Juvenile Breaking the Cycle (JBTC) Program, an intervention that was designed to provide criminal justice system monitoring and individualized treatment and services to substance-using youth who were assessed as high recidivism risks following an initial police encounter.

A common recidivism-risk questionnaire, called the LSI-R, turns out to be a commercial product, protected by copyright.

From Idaho and New Mexico we received documents with some descriptions of the recidivism-risk assessments those states used, but no details about how they were developed or validated.

In Ohio, an evaluation of a state program that supervises young offenders in the community as an alternative to incarceration found that recidivism for low-risk and moderate-risk youth sent to facilities was double that of those monitored in the community.

Table  4 shows probabilities of recidivism related to risk categories as derived from the aforementioned cut-off values.