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- verb nonstandard To
offend again; especially after receivingpunishment ortreatment
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Examples
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So if you can help someone become employable and reduce the chance they are going to reoffend, that is in the crime victim's interest.
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So if you can help someone become employable and reduce the chance they are going to reoffend, that is in the crime victim's interest.
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The assumptions underlying the statutes are that sex offenders are particularly likely to reoffend, which is why they are singled out from all other categories of criminals for registration and notification, and that informing the community will better enable potential victims to take precautions.
Sex Offender Issues 2009
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Fewer than half of prisoners 44% with substance misuse problems who completed a Rapt intensive "12-step" long-term programme went on to reoffend on release.
Could an intensive, abstinence-based approach solve prisoners' drug addiction? 2011
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If offenders are not re-directed to community programmes like those we have seen during the course of our inquiry, there is a risk that they will simply go on to reoffend.
Ken Clarke warned over 'catastrophic' community punishment cuts 2011
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The treatment programs weren't perfect because "a lot of the Saudis went back to reoffend again," he said.
More than a third of former Guantanamo detainees were labeled 'high-risk' 2011
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The treatment programs weren't perfect because "a lot of the Saudis went back to reoffend again," he said.
More than a third of former Guantanamo detainees were labeled 'high-risk' 2011
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It concludes that when prisoners addicted to drugs go through intensive abstinence programmes they are less likely to reoffend after release.
Could an intensive, abstinence-based approach solve prisoners' drug addiction? 2011
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The state also hopes to lower the proportion of people who reoffend, as studies have shown that locally based rehabilitation efforts are more effective than state parole programs.
Alameda Pushes More on Rehab, Less on Jail Vauhini Vara 2012
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Only half said they had done something while they were inside that would make them less likely to reoffend in the future.
Young black men make up four in 10 of youth jail population 2011
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