recidivism

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A common cause of recidivism is an ex-convict's difficulty in finding work.

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  1. noun A tendency to recidivate.

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  • Reacting to concerns that the sex offender registry includes increase recidivism, a Dallas state rep wants to give judges discretion to shorten sex offender registration periods for certain first-time offenders. —  PegasusNews.com stories
  • The Colorado Department of Public Safety in 2004 tracked 130 sex offenders on probation for 15 months to monitor recidivism, according to Federal Probation, a professional correctional journal. —  Sex Offender Issues
  • Improving community supervision programs is the best way to limit state prison spending and reduce recidivism, according to a report by the Pew Center on the States. —  News/local from www.dailyamerican.com
  • To avoid recidivism, these changes will need to be burned into organisational DNA. —  ZDNET.com.au
  • Lawmakers increased substance abuse treatment efforts to reduce recidivism, and cut spending by consolidating some women's prisons and sending more male inmates out of state and to a new work camp. —  Stateline.org RSS - stories
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  1. From recidivist, one who recidivates, from French récidiviste, from récidiver, to relapse, from Medieval Latin recidīvāre, from Latin recidīvus, falling back, from recidere, to fall back : re-, re- + cadere, to fall; see kad- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. recidiv(ous) + -ism.
 

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/rəˈsɪdɪvɪzm/
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