Recidivism as a Measure of the Effectiveness of Sanctions: Experience from the Czech Republic
Recidivism is one of the measures that can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of sanctions imposed by the criminal justice system. The article summarizes findings from the most extensive research of this type in the Czech Republic. The sample included a total of 4,233 individuals sentenced to hou...
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doaj-d08e5c32110047f092e68ee9723ce3482020-11-25T03:07:58ZcesKarolinum PressActa Universitatis Carolinae: Philosophica et Historica0567-82932464-70552018-04-012018292210.14712/24647055.2018.15988Recidivism as a Measure of the Effectiveness of Sanctions: Experience from the Czech RepublicJan TomášekJan RozumRecidivism is one of the measures that can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of sanctions imposed by the criminal justice system. The article summarizes findings from the most extensive research of this type in the Czech Republic. The sample included a total of 4,233 individuals sentenced to house arrest, community service, suspended sentences with supervision or released from prison in 2012. Recidivism was defined as a new record in the Criminal Register in 2014. It was revealed that 48.1% of the sample re-offended in the two year period. While the type of sanction imposed on the offender had a negligible impact, the likelihood of a new conviction was strongly linked to gender, age and previous criminal career. The significance of previous convictions and their number was confirmed also by the multivariate analysis using logistic regression. The importance of these findings is high and the recidivism should be monitored systematically in the Czech Republic. However, as the research showed, it is impossible to connect the effectiveness of crime control with simply finding “effective sanctions”. Inevitably, the criminal policy must be understood as an integral part of social policy.http://www.karolinum.cz/doi/10.14712/24647055.2018.1Recidivismeffectiveness of penal policyalternatives to prisoncriminal carreer |
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Recidivism as a Measure of the Effectiveness of Sanctions: Experience from the Czech Republic |
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Recidivism as a Measure of the Effectiveness of Sanctions: Experience from the Czech Republic |
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Karolinum Press |
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Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Philosophica et Historica |
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0567-8293 2464-7055 |
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2018-04-01 |
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Recidivism is one of the measures that can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of sanctions imposed by the criminal justice system. The article summarizes findings from the most extensive research of this type in the Czech Republic. The sample included a total of 4,233 individuals sentenced to house arrest, community service, suspended sentences with supervision or released from prison in 2012. Recidivism was defined as a new record in the Criminal Register in 2014. It was revealed that 48.1% of the sample re-offended in the two year period. While the type of sanction imposed on the offender had a negligible impact, the likelihood of a new conviction was strongly linked to gender, age and previous criminal career. The significance of previous convictions and their number was confirmed also by the multivariate analysis using logistic regression. The importance of these findings is high and the recidivism should be monitored systematically in the Czech Republic. However, as the research showed, it is impossible to connect the effectiveness of crime control with simply finding “effective sanctions”. Inevitably, the criminal policy must be understood as an integral part of social policy. |
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Recidivism effectiveness of penal policy alternatives to prison criminal carreer |
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