Recidivism
Padilla,Thelma
Recidivism: The Impact On Us All Our criminal justice system relies heavily on probation and parole and corrections to maintain a safety in all of our communities from people who commit crimes. Then after that, there are what we call repeat offenders who for some reason, just do not know how to stop. Whether it ranges from simple assault to a felony like murder, some cannot scratch off the edge to do it again. What does this mean for us as a community to maintain our sanity and make sure we have money in our pockets to feed our families? Recidivism can help our communities but it can also damage it. Recidivism by definition simply means the act of a person repeating an undesirable behavior after they have either experienced negative consequences of that behavior, or have been treated or trained to extinguish that behavior. It is also used to refer to the percentage of former prisoners who are rearrested for a similar offense. It is stated that once incarcerated, 53% of males and 39% of females end up being re-incarnated within some point of their life. What does this mean for the taxpayers? Paying taxes at either a higher rate or coming up with another tax to keep fueling the ever-growing corrections system. Recidivism is suppose to keep people who commit crimes out of jail and help them rehabilitate, but if they keep going back after being “helped”, what more can the workers of the institutions do? The taxpayers are putting more in than they can handle. Probation officers can help offenders stay out of jail. Recidivism is just that. Probation officers are the back bone of this program. They as individuals can only handle so much though. A probation officer can sometimes have case loads so big that they cannot keep up with all of the parolees. They have to manage each individual and maintain a collective attitude throughout it all. But even if you were the best peach out of them all, someone is still going to hate peaches. We cannot always
Recidivism: The Impact On Us All Our criminal justice system relies heavily on probation and parole and corrections to maintain a safety in all of our communities from people who commit crimes. Then after that, there are what we call repeat offenders who for some reason, just do not know how to stop. Whether it ranges from simple assault to a felony like murder, some cannot scratch off the edge to do it again. What does this mean for us as a community to maintain our sanity and make sure we have money in our pockets to feed our families? Recidivism can help our communities but it can also damage it. Recidivism by definition simply means the act of a person repeating an undesirable behavior after they have either experienced negative consequences of that behavior, or have been treated or trained to extinguish that behavior. It is also used to refer to the percentage of former prisoners who are rearrested for a similar offense. It is stated that once incarcerated, 53% of males and 39% of females end up being re-incarnated within some point of their life. What does this mean for the taxpayers? Paying taxes at either a higher rate or coming up with another tax to keep fueling the ever-growing corrections system. Recidivism is suppose to keep people who commit crimes out of jail and help them rehabilitate, but if they keep going back after being “helped”, what more can the workers of the institutions do? The taxpayers are putting more in than they can handle. Probation officers can help offenders stay out of jail. Recidivism is just that. Probation officers are the back bone of this program. They as individuals can only handle so much though. A probation officer can sometimes have case loads so big that they cannot keep up with all of the parolees. They have to manage each individual and maintain a collective attitude throughout it all. But even if you were the best peach out of them all, someone is still going to hate peaches. We cannot always