In this paper we build and estimate an econometric model of recidivism, using a US data set of released prisoners from state prisons in 1983. The data set is unique in the sense that it contains information on recidivism for both federal and state crimes, in contrast of past studies restricted only to state samples with few or no information about federal crimes. The paper extends the literatur...

BACKGROUND Many concerns about liver transplantation in alcoholic patients are related to the risk of alcohol recidivism. Starting from 2002, an Alcohol Addiction Unit (AAU) was formed within the liver transplant center for the management of alcoholic patients affected by end-stage liver disease and included in the waiting list for transplantation. We evaluated retrospectively the impact of the...

This paper studies a probation program in Cologne, Germany. The program, which has clear rehabilitative focus, offers intensified personal support to serious juvenile offenders over the first 6 months of their period. To evaluate program's impact on recidivism, we draw two research designs. Firstly, small-scale randomized trial assigns with regular or support. Secondly, regression discontinuity...

This literature scoping review compared recidivism rates of moderate- and high-risk sexual offenders who received cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) oriented treatments. Ten empirical studies from 2001 to 2014 were selected for review that met the following criteria: (a) Treatment program included a CBT-based intervention with a comparative intervention; (b) participants included adult, male, m...

Ecological approaches to explaining juvenile delinquency emphasize the importance of spatial influences on patterns of delinquency. Studies of recidivism among juvenile offenders, on the other hand, have rarely taken neighborhood influences into account. Moreover, conventional statistical approaches adapted for investigating spatial neighborhood effects, such as hierarchical linear modeling (HL...

Traditional sentencing in America by the way of mass incarceration is a three-fold failure: it does not deter crime, it institutionalizes the inmates and it does so at an incredible cost to the state. There are alternative sentencing measures that can be implemented, and have been done so in various states, but there are not enough statistics that show alternative sanctions will reduce recidivi...

Sexual offenders constitute a substantial proportion of the older male prison population. Recent research findings, with potential consequences for risk management, indicate that recidivism risk might be lower in older sexual offenders. We followed up all adult male sexual offenders released from prison in Sweden during 1993-1997 (N=1,303) for criminal reconviction for an average of 8.9 years. ...

Using a retrospective quasi-experimental design, this study evaluates the effectiveness of prison-based treatment by examining recidivism outcomes among 2,040 sex offenders released from Minnesota prisons between 1990 and 2003 (average follow-up period of 9.3 years). To reduce observed selection bias, the authors used propensity score matching to create a comparison group of 1,020 untreated sex...