This is the number that tells us whether prisons are doing their job, making us safer. Wednesday the U. Sentencing Commission released the results of a major study of all 25, federal offenders released in For the most part it reaffirms the conventional wisdom of criminologists: older offenders and those with more education are less likely to return to a life of crime. The single best indicator of whether an ex-offender will become a re-offender is the length and seriousness of his rap sheet.
But these conclusions bear repeating, since they offer some guidance to policy-makers, who are mostly not criminologists.
The most striking number is this: About 45 percent of federal inmates are rearrested within five years of release. This is considerably lower than the more alarming calculation of the Bureau of Justice Statistics: 77 percent rearrested within five years. But the BJS number includes both federal prisoners and the far more numerous veterans of state prisons. The populations are different. Most murders, rapes, assaults and robberies are handled in state courts.
The largest category of federal inmates consists of drug traffickers. A failure rate of 45 percent is still not something most institutions would celebrate. These are:. Social isolation. The figures were based only on male offenders, due to the smaller number of persistent or serious female offenders in the survey.
Nevertheless, the risk factors that apply to males are also thought to apply to females. Get in touch with us today if you would like course advice. Download our course handbook here.
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Extremely well written and engaging. Piquero, University of Florida. It is logical in its organization, clearly articulated, empirically informed, and brilliant in its depth of scholarship This book should be required reading for anyone interested in the study of crime and criminals.
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