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To what types of offenders might punishment be the most effective in reducing recidivism?
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∙ 11y ago
Punishment does not affect recidivism, except perhaps to ensure that it remains high. "If we treat people like animals when they are in prison, they are likely to behave like animals," says Arne Kvernvik-Nilsen, clinical psychologist and Governor of Bastøy Prison in Norway.
Recidivism rates are a strange thing. In the US, no matter how much is done, no matter what types of rehabilitation programs are used, no matter the lengths of sentences, the rates generally remain the same, and have for the past twenty years according to the US Department of Justice Bureau of Statistics.
Those convicted of murder demonstrate the lowest recidivism rate at around 2.5% nationally (US statistic Below them at 5.67% are sex offenders (87% of those are the most violent offenders and expositionists--flashers. The largest group of convicted SO's are those who offended against a family member, making up 80% and representing only about 2% of all repeat offenders in this group. The remaining 11% are acquaintance offenders and boyfriend/girlfriend type situations). The next lowest rate of recidivism falls to those convicted of property crimes at around 22%. The different categories climb dramatically after that to drug-related offenses at around 88.9%, and home invasions at nearly 100%.
Incidentally, capital punishment has been proven to be nodeterrent to crime at all. Strangely enough, the states that are toughest on crimes, those where the death penalty is practiced and carried out on a regular basis have the highest capital crime rates in the nation. While execution might deter the executed from ever committing another crime, the potential of it did nothing to deter the crime for which he was executed.
The national average of recidivism rates combined in the US is about 75%. Interestingly, by comparison those of inmates who have completed the program at Bastøy Prison, in Norway is about 10%, and has remained the same for the thirty or so years it has operated as a men's prison. Since the closing of the boy's detention center there in the 1950's, there has not been a single riot or an escape or escape attempt. Someone is doing something right.
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∙ 15y ago
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