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I need statistics on people who have been convicted of a murder, and then have commited murder again.

Or an example of a person would be nice (ex: ted bundy, but i cant use him )

2007-04-03 04:25:25 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government Law & Ethics

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look up "recidivism for murder" in google...that should do it.

2007-04-03 10:32:40 · answer #1 · answered by CBJ 4 · 0 0

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2016-06-10 09:14:50 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0 0

Actually, the recidivism rate for homicide is quite low compared to other offenses.

See Bureau of Justice Statistics:

Recidivism of Prisoners Released in 1994
Reports on the rearrest, reconviction, and reincarceration of former inmates who were tracked for 3 years after their release from prisons in 15 States in 1994. The former inmates represent two-thirds of all prisoners released in the United States that year. The report includes prisoner demographic characteristics (gender, race, Hispanic origin, and age), criminal record, types of offenses for which they were imprisoned, the effects of length of stay in prison on likelihood of rearrest, and comparisons with a study of prisoners released in 1983.

Highlights include the following:


Released prisoners with the highest rearrest rates were robbers (70.2%), burglars (74.0%), larcenists (74.6%), motor vehicle thieves (78.8%), those in prison for possessing or selling stolen property (77.4%), and those in prison for possessing, using, or selling illegal weapons (70.2%).

Within 3 years, 2.5% of released rapists were arrested for another rape, and 1.2% of those who had served time for homicide were arrested for homicide.

The 272,111 offenders discharged in 1994 had accumulated 4.1 million arrest charges before their most recent imprisonment and another 744,000 charges within 3 years of release.

Although these data are a bit dated, they haven't changed much since then.

2007-04-03 04:32:47 · answer #3 · answered by jurydoc 7 · 2 0

Your state's Department of Corrections should have a website will all kinds of useful info like that.

2007-04-03 04:29:07 · answer #4 · answered by sandg94 3 · 0 0

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