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California has undertaken numerous corrections reforms in the past decade— including public safety realignment in 2011 and Proposition 47 in 2014—in hopes of reducing the prison population, maintaining public safety, and improving persistently high recidivism rates. These reforms lowered incarceration levels, and in their aftermath, crime rates have fluctuated. Recidivism rates provide ...
CDCR reports recidivism rates (arrests, convictions, and returns to prison) through our Recidivism Data Dashboard. The three-year conviction rate is CDCR’s primary measure of recidivism (for more information, please see the Evaluation Design Section of our Recidivism Report Series below).
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The 2019 Division of Juvenile Justice Recidivism Report examines recidivism outcomes (arrests, convictions, and returns to state custody) for youth released from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) during Fiscal Year 2014-15.
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We find: Overall recidivism rates have declined for felony offenders. The share of felony offenders rearrested for any offense within two years declined somewhat from 68 percent to 66 percent over the four-year period. The two-year reconviction rate for any offense dropped substantially from 41 percent to 35 percent.
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The 2019 recidivism rate is 46.5 percent, close to the 46.1 percent of the previous two years. Much has changed in the Department since Fiscal Year 2014-15: policies and procedures have shifted
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There are a wide range of estimates of the recidivism rate for child molesters. However, some of the better designed research on the subject suggests a conservative estimate of long-term recidivism to be 50 percent higher, depending on the type of offender.
Empirical studies of sexual offender recidivism have proliferated in recent decades. Virtually all of the studies define recidivism as a new legal charge or conviction for a sexual crime, and these studies tend to find recidivism rates of the order of 5–15% after 5 years and 10–25% after 10+ years.
