11-03-2015, 09:07 PM
Well, it seems recidivism rates are calculated differently by different states and municipalities.
Snip:
When the federal government calculates a state’s recidivism rate, it uses sample prisoner populations to tally three separate categories: rearrests, reconvictions, and returns to prison, all over a one- to five-year period from the date of release (HOTD: which I assume would include any former inmate who wound up back in jail for technical parole violations only.)
As the chart below demonstrates, using federal recidivism data for inmates who left state prisons in 1994, parole violations accounted for the entirety of the gap between California’s recidivism rate and the recidivism rates of other large states.
![[Image: e29d5f49-6f6c-4e9f-97c2-635700198248_zpsaqzzyacs.png]](http://i1054.photobucket.com/albums/s500/HairOfTheDog1337/e29d5f49-6f6c-4e9f-97c2-635700198248_zpsaqzzyacs.png)
In other words: Because of the differences in how states and localities enforce parole, recidivism rates tell us little about the reoccurrence of the types of crimes with which the public is most concerned: crimes that have a victim.
Source: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2014/...recidivism
(HOTD edit 11/4/15: resized graph)
Snip:
When the federal government calculates a state’s recidivism rate, it uses sample prisoner populations to tally three separate categories: rearrests, reconvictions, and returns to prison, all over a one- to five-year period from the date of release (HOTD: which I assume would include any former inmate who wound up back in jail for technical parole violations only.)
As the chart below demonstrates, using federal recidivism data for inmates who left state prisons in 1994, parole violations accounted for the entirety of the gap between California’s recidivism rate and the recidivism rates of other large states.
In other words: Because of the differences in how states and localities enforce parole, recidivism rates tell us little about the reoccurrence of the types of crimes with which the public is most concerned: crimes that have a victim.
Source: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2014/...recidivism
(HOTD edit 11/4/15: resized graph)