reconvicted, recidivism rate, reoffending rate

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Norway has the lowest reoffending rate in Scandinavia: two years after release, only 20% of prisoners have been reconvicted. By contrast, a study of 29 American states found a recidivism rate nearly twice as high

Norway treats its prisoners like adults. The world can learn a lot from this

Too many prisons make bad people worse

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recidivist
noun [C] SPECIALIZED
a criminal who continues to commit crimes even after they have been punished

recidivism
noun [U] SPECIALIZED

Recidivism - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recidivism

Recidivism (/rᵻˈsɪdᵻvɪzəm/; from recidive and ism, from Latin recidīvus "recurring", from re- "back" and cadō "I fall") is the act of a person repeating an undesirable behavior after they had either experienced negative consequences of that behavior, or had been trained to extinguish that behavior.

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