How to Use recidivism in a Sentence

recidivism

noun

• For the 86 who failed, the recidivism rate was 16 percent.
  — Greg Moran, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Aug. 2019
• The recidivism rate dropped to 3% for people 60 and older, the study found.
  — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 18 June 2022
• While the statewide recidivism rate is close to 50%, fewer than 10% of the SCC clients have returned to prison.
  — Lindsey McGinnis, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 June 2021
• Boudin said the goal of the task force is to disrupt the cycle of recidivism by rooting out the sources of the city’s drug supplies.
  — Megan Cassidy, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Feb. 2021
• In fact, one of the biggest predictors of recidivism is age – or rather, lack of it.
  — Elizabeth MacBride, Forbes, 4 June 2022
• The recidivism rate in New Jersey is just shy of 30 percent.
  — New York Times, 31 Dec. 2021
• The idea is both to decrease recidivism and create a more skilled workforce.
  — Kaitlin Lange, Indianapolis Star, 5 Apr. 2018
• The movement for tougher rules began with a high-profile case of recidivism.
  — Kenny Jacoby, USA Today, 12 Dec. 2019
• And his numbers don’t reflect the pace of recidivism currently or over the last decade.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2022
• Therefore, this is a chance to maybe reduce recidivism as well.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 20 Sep. 2021
• The training, hard-nosed but with respect, has paid off: The recidivism rate of his employees is about 1%.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 30 Sep. 2020
• Arnett argues that the system is built to make recidivism the fault of officers and parolees.
  — Sidney Fussell, Wired, 11 Nov. 2020
• Peart also hopes that the company will help lower recidivism in the United States, which are among the highest in the world.
  — Alessandra Freitas, CNN, 13 Feb. 2022
• The goal is to reduce recidivism and shrink the prison population.
  — David Ovalle, Washington Post, 2 July 2024
• How far along is your next film, the documentary about prison and recidivism?
  — Caryn James, WSJ, 20 June 2018
• But what if taking away their right to bear arms for life actually helps drive up the rate of recidivism?
  — Ainsley Platt, arkansasonline.com, 7 Sep. 2024
• In fact, research shows after the first two years, recidivism is markedly low.
  — Talis Shelbourne, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Sep. 2019
• Based on recidivism rates, these criminals need to be kept off the streets for as long as possible.
  — WSJ, 6 Nov. 2022
• Less than 3% of RTA members return to prison vs the national recidivism rate of 60%.
  — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 17 June 2024
• The program’s low rate of recidivism for crime and drug use has drawn national acclaim.
  — New York Times, 4 June 2018
• And even with those challenges, graduates have gone on to get jobs at such places as Slack, with a 0 percent recidivism rate.
  — Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2019
• The study found that people who get their records expunged see higher earnings and low recidivism rates.
  — Angie Jackson, Detroit Free Press, 12 Oct. 2020
• Boudin has attempted to expand the program, which started in 2013 and has been shown in a five-year study to reduce recidivism.
  — Joshua Sharpe, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 May 2022
• By comparison, one in three return to prison within two years in the United States, which has some of the highest recidivism rates in the world.
  — Rebecca Wright, CNN, 19 Oct. 2024
• Other states, however, have seen drops in recidivism for those who go through the program.
  — John Caniglia, cleveland.com, 4 Mar. 2018
• That rate is more than double the 15% recidivism rate in the five years prior to the implementation of Title 42.
  — Rafael Carranza, The Arizona Republic, 11 June 2021
• Frescobaldi knew the grim recidivism rate in the Italian prison system—85 percent.
  — Sara L. Schneider, Robb Report, 20 June 2022
• The restaurant’s track record isn’t too shabby, either: The recidivism rate of the young men and women who work at the restaurant — less than 15% — is almost three times lower than the state’s.
  — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 1 Oct. 2020
• The recidivism rate for those with such disorders is nearly 80%.
  — William R. Kelly, Fortune, 9 Aug. 2017
• Most criminologists agree that charging and sentencing juveniles as adults has not been shown to reduce recidivism.
  — Lizzie Presser, ProPublica, 28 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024