2018 Update on Prisoner Recidivism: A 9-Year Follow-up Period (2005-2014)

"Five in 6 (83%) state prisoners released in 2005 FIGURE 1 across 30 states were arrested at least once during Annual arrest percentage of prisoners released in the 9 years following their release. The remaining 30 states in 2005 17% were not arrested afer release during the 9-year Percent of released prisoners follow-up period.

About 4 in 9 (44%) prisoners released in 2005 were arrested at least once during their frst year after release 40 (fgure 1). About 1 in 3 (34%) were arrested during their third year after release, and nearly 1 in 4 (24%) 30 were arrested during their ninth year.

This report examines the post-release ofending 20 patterns of former prisoners and their involvement in criminal activity both within and outside of the 10 state where they were imprisoned. The Bureau of Justice Statistics analyzed the ofending patterns of 0 67,966 prisoners who were randomly sampled to Year after release represent the 401,288 state prisoners released in 2005 Note: The denominator for annual percent is 401,288 (total state in 30 states. This sample is representative of the 30 prisoners released in 30 states in 2005). See table 5 for estimates and states, both individually and collectively, included in appendix table 7 standard errors. the study (see Methodology)..."
Prisoner recidivism

2018 Update On Prisoner Recidivism: A 9-Year Follow-Up Period (2005-2014)

"Examines the recidivism patterns of former prisoners during a 9-year follow-up period. The report provides data on the number and types of crimes prisoners commit after release, by offender characteristics, commitment offense, whether the arrest was within or outside the state of release, and whether released prisoners had no subsequent arrests during the follow-up period. It also shows how recidivism and desistance patterns change when using longer or shorter follow-up periods, including cumulative and annual arrest percentages, year of first arrest following release from prison, and the total number of arrests of released prisoners. Findings are based on data from BJS's Recidivism Study of State Prisoners Released in 2005 data collection, which tracked a sample of former prisoners from 30 states for 9 years following release in 2005. Source data are from prisoner records reported by state departments of corrections to BJS's National Corrections Reporting Program and national criminal history records from the FBI's Interstate Identification Index and state criminal history repositories via the International Justice and Public Safety Network.

Highlights:

• The 401,288 state prisoners released in 2005 had 1,994,000 arrests during the 9-year period, an average of 5 arrests per released prisoner. Sixty percent of these arrests occurred during years 4 through 9.
• An estimated 68% of released prisoners were arrested within 3 years, 79% within 6 years, and 83% within 9 years.
• Eighty-two percent of prisoners arrested during the 9-year period were arrested within the first 3 years.
• Almost half (47%) of prisoners who did not have an arrest within 3 years of release were arrested during years 4 through 9.
• Forty-four percent of released prisoners were arrested during the first year following release, while 24% were arrested during year-9..."
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NEW DATA ANALYSIS TOOL ALLOWS USERS TO EXPLORE RECIDIVISM PATTERNS OF RELEASED PRISONERS
"Today the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics released the first in a series of data analysis tools that will enable the public to explore the recidivism patterns of persons involved with the criminal justice system. The new Prisoner Recidivism Analysis Tool allows users to conduct customized analyses of a large database describing the recidivism of prisoners released in 1994 and followed for a three-year period after release. In 2012, BJS plans to update the tool with new recidivism data on prisoners released in 2005.

The public can use this online tool to analyze a large research database and verify statistics found in government publications, media reports or other sources that use these data. The tool allows users to move beyond the published statistics to explore in more detail the recidivism patterns of released prisoners. Users may examine the recidivism patterns of released prisoners based on one or more attributes, such as gender, age at release, race, Hispanic origin, commitment offense, sentence length, prior arrests and prior commitments. For example, while published reports document the recidivism patterns of women leaving prison, the new tool will allow users to determine the recidivism patterns of younger and older women, women committed for a specific offense or women with different criminal histories.

The Prisoner Recidivism Analysis Tool was developed by Howard N. Snyder, statistician, and Joseph Mulako-Wangota, information technology specialist, at BJS.."