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Word | Recidivism |
a failure to maintain a higher state / habitual relapse into crime / habitual return to Crime / a gallows. / a tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior; especially : relapse into criminal behavior / : a tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior high recidivism rates after cessation of smoking—A. E. Kazdin et al, | |
Usage | ⇒ Prison reformers in the United States are disturbed by the high rate of recidivism; the number of persons serving second and third terms indicates the failure of the prisons to rehabilitate the inmates. ⇒ A keen historian he also spent considerable time searching for items of historical interest and even managed to locate a gibbet from an old gallows from which a young Irish lad was hung in 1832. |
Synonyms | backsliding, relapse, recidivation, lapse, regression, retrogression, backslide, fall, reversion, recession, return, reverting, apostasy, atavism, decline, deterioration, fall from grace, recidivity, regress, restoration, |
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