The crime category that had the highest percentage of recidivism was property crime with a rate of 82%. Interestingly the study would find that the lowest recidivism rate would be found in the violent offender’s category with no category falling below a 71% recidivism rate. With respect to age the study found that within the five years of the study was conducted 84% of those who were 24 or younger at the time of release along with 78% between the ages 25-39, and lastly 69% of those 40 and older were found to reoffend within five years (BJS 2014). With these things known about recidivism.
Related on a parallel note are the connections of education and commission of crime in general. Some interesting things to note from education author Linda …show more content…
He built “Tent City” both as a tool for incapacitation and a major tool for deterrence. There are things that go boom in the night, and then there are things that make no noise. That which makes no noise is scariest, and that is tent city more or less. It is a sprawling complex where inmates live outside in tents you would find at YMCA Camp Fitch, in all weather conditions including extreme heat. His rationale being that inmates should not live better inside than they would outside the walls of the prison. While I’m not sure he is going about making his point in an effective manner, but I will concede that he has one. Doing time in prison is hard anywhere, but in America it is a different kind of hard. Prison is hard because oftentimes people are institutionalized with little do to except try to survive. In many cases including one close to my family where a student of someone I know personally ended up serving a seven year sentence for vehicular manslaughter. He himself had many things going for him, but lost the better part of a decade of his life due to an incident that ended up with someone else losing their life on a highway. I digress while he was serving his time he found it extremely difficult to get any help with the issues that brought him to prison in the first place. To say that it is depressing to find that with millions of Americans imprisoned for a wide variety of offenses, it seems insane that as a nation as large as ours cannot get a handle on recidivism through the very institution that creates the situation as we know
Related on a parallel note are the connections of education and commission of crime in general. Some interesting things to note from education author Linda …show more content…
He built “Tent City” both as a tool for incapacitation and a major tool for deterrence. There are things that go boom in the night, and then there are things that make no noise. That which makes no noise is scariest, and that is tent city more or less. It is a sprawling complex where inmates live outside in tents you would find at YMCA Camp Fitch, in all weather conditions including extreme heat. His rationale being that inmates should not live better inside than they would outside the walls of the prison. While I’m not sure he is going about making his point in an effective manner, but I will concede that he has one. Doing time in prison is hard anywhere, but in America it is a different kind of hard. Prison is hard because oftentimes people are institutionalized with little do to except try to survive. In many cases including one close to my family where a student of someone I know personally ended up serving a seven year sentence for vehicular manslaughter. He himself had many things going for him, but lost the better part of a decade of his life due to an incident that ended up with someone else losing their life on a highway. I digress while he was serving his time he found it extremely difficult to get any help with the issues that brought him to prison in the first place. To say that it is depressing to find that with millions of Americans imprisoned for a wide variety of offenses, it seems insane that as a nation as large as ours cannot get a handle on recidivism through the very institution that creates the situation as we know