In my opinion I don’t feel that recidivism can be used to truly measure the success or failure of community corrections programs. Furthermore, recidivism is said to be a return to crime or a tendency to relapse into a former condition or type of behavior which is considered to criminal. This mean that a person starts to doing the same thing they were doing in order for them to get placed in prison in the first place. Therefore, some criminologists may not have a good or valid way of measuring if or if not a crime actually occurred and imperfect measures of tracking criminal activity due to the fact that a lot of crimes happen without being detected leads to this situation because there are no arrests to the crime. Although, recidivism cannot …show more content…
It would deal with ways to understand the processes that underlie the effects of sanctions and interventions where the propensity of individuals committing crimes are respected and understood to help them stop their criminal behavior. This would hopefully help stop any future crimes because as we know recidivism supposed to be able to measure the starting or stopping of events. Therefore, it will all start when a person enters into a program or released from prison and be recorded for future use in tracking criminal activity. It can also be used when a person is placed on probation or parole because this is a form of starting a new event which can be tracked as well. There is also the stopping of all of these events which is when a person is arrest again or revocation of supervision which means there is a possibility that they are getting sent back to prison which helps track their criminal activity for future measuring processors. Therefore, it will not only measure the stopping of events but the start as well because a lot of times only the arrest are reported and not the actual amount of time from start to stopping of any events that has