Recidivism is not a new occurrence, it has been an issue for as long as society has had crime. The idea has not been vocalized in the past but the fact is that society may not even realize the impact recidivism has on the everyday life of individuals within our society. “The concept of recidivism has produced a variety of definitions and special applications. However, the meaning that is most widely used defines recidivists as offenders who serve time in prisons, reenter society, and violate their parole or commit new crimes that return them to custody (Meehan).” The points that people must realize is that the growing number of individuals committing these crimes is not the type of violent crimes that hit the newsstand or …show more content…
The points that has to be understood is that if these offenders are committing these types of crimes they are not being productive citizens, they tend to be living off of different means which is usually of the illegal intent. Even when these types of non-violent crimes are being committed they affect their family. The families have to help pay for these crimes just as much as those committing different violent offenses.
Indecency is one of the other nonviolent offenses that is listed within this crime perspective however what is the purpose behind the particular crime. The original crime, history of individual and other key factors would play just as large of a role with recidivism. Even when one looks at this set of issues, the offender could still be just as likely to offend. What steps does society have to do separately within this type of crime.
The same would or could be applied as to other crimes however it would most likely be treated in a different set of intellectual terms. Forgery or money crimes is another one of those crimes that may not seem to be as big of a deal however when someone commits forgery they are not just …show more content…
Property crimes would be one of the crimes that could be listed just the same as forgery. The issues would be listed just as the same because the property would have to be paid for or repaired depending on the extent of the incident that was committed. The issue of vandalism would fall within the same spectrum because it is very much the same. The fact may not be that these offender will reoffend however each has to be looked at in the same perspective. When one looks at which issues can be linked directly or indirectly each step must be viewed to determine the rate that they might reoffend. Violent crimes might be a little more hard to develop whether the offender might have a higher rate of recidivism or not. The violent crimes that most individuals think of when they think of violence would be homicide or murder, rape to include sexual assault, battery, assault and more that would be among this structure. The rates