First-day criminal recidivism

Bleick Rehabilitation: Reduced Criminal Recidivism Paper 286 Influence of the Transcendental Meditation Program on Criminal Recidivism

Parole outcomes for California Department of Corrections parolees who had voluntarily learned the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique while incarcerated at Folsom Prison, Deuel Vocational Institution, and San Quentin Prison in California were compared to parole outcomes for nonmeditating parolees matched for offense, prior commitment record, age, ethnic group, institution, and parole year....

Recidivism among treated criminal psychiatric patients.

Until recently there was a poverty of treatment effort devoted to criminal offenders who were housed in the public mental hospitals of this country. In a nationwide survey of such programs published in 1969, the most frequently mentioned treatment modalities used for" most or all" patients were recreation therapy, drugs and religious guidance. I Recently, more money and concern have been devote...

Predicting criminal recidivism of insanity acquittees.

Does San Francisco’s Community Justice Center Reduce Criminal Recidivism?

Community courts are expressly oriented toward improving outcomes for offenders by addressing factors—like substance use disorders, mental health issues, and unemployment—that are often linked to criminal behavior; this is done by incorporating access to treatment and services within the criminal case management process itself. The community court model is a novel approach for processing crimin...

Criminal recidivism in mentally ill offenders: a pilot study.

Criminal recidivism in mentally ill offenders, In the context of a county jail, has not been extensively studied. This study compares the rate of criminal recidivism between those who suffered from a mental illness at the time of arrest and those who did not. In addition, the length of incarceration between these two groups was compared. Using survival analysis, a risk assessment model describi...