Definitions for recidivism

recidivism re·cid·i·vism

Spelling: [ri-sid-uh-viz-uh m]
IPA: /rɪˈsɪd əˌvɪz əm/

Recidivism is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 319 anagrams from letters in recidivism (cdeiiimrsv).

Definitions for recidivism

noun

  1. repeated or habitual relapse, as into crime.
  2. Psychiatry. the chronic tendency toward repetition of criminal or antisocial behavior patterns.

Origin of recidivism

1885-90; Latin recidīv(us) relapsing (recid(ere) to fall back (re- re- + -cidere, combining form of cadere to fall) + -īvus Examples for recidivism

Raising the stakes, people with these sorts of abnormal compulsions tend to have high rates of recidivism, observes Davison.

The goal is to reduce the burden of prison costs while also reducing the recidivism rate.

He also suggested, however, that any recidivism would be met with a yanking of support.

Every psychologist will tell you that past violent behaviour is the best predictor of future recidivism.

In time we have come to realize that our punitive methods not only do not tend to do away with recidivism, but enhance it.

recidivism is part of the social contract in this society of freedom and justice for all.

Some part of the recidivism here is undoubtedly due to the kind of occupations which a child can carry on while attending school.

Violent criminals in America have shockingly high rates of recidivism.

Their recidivism is not due to an inability to distinguish between right and wrong.

The foregoing cases, while distinctly abnormal mentally, owe their recidivism to a qualitative rather than a quantitative defect.

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