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How to pronounce recidivism in English?

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Type Words
Type of backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting
Derivation recidivate, recidivist

Examples of recidivism

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No discussion of parole and recidivism is complete without discussing murderers.
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To prevent recidivism, Huda has arranged employment for 10 convicted terrorists.
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Did the son's addiction and recidivism contribute to the father's health crisis?
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This compared the recidivism rates of the CIP participants with a control group.
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Feuer believes the devices would dramatically reduce recidivism by DUI offenders.
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Recidivism rates have consistently been lower for Redeploy Illinois participants.
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Generational recidivism is not unusual in Sugar Bear's world of fatherlessness.
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Hinshaw said keeping inmates in Sedgwick County also could help reduce recidivism.
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The recidivism rate of the 558 official Guantanamo detainees is hotly debated.
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More examples
  • Habitual relapse into crime
  • (recidivist) someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior)
  • (recidivist) someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior
  • Recidivism (/ru1D7Bu02C8su026Adu1D7Bvu026Azu0259m/; from recidive and ism, from Latin recidu012Bvus "recurring", from re- "back" and cadu014D "I fall") is the act of a person repeating an undesirable behavior after they had either experienced negative consequences of that behavior, or had been trained to extinguish that behavior...
  • In medicine, recidivism is the characteristic of many diseases to recur, with a period in between of regression (medicine).
  • (recidivist) A repeat offender; One who falls back into prior habits, especially criminal habits
  • (recidivist) one who continually commits crime and seems incurable of criminal tendencies.
  • The continued, habitual or compulsive commission of law violations after first having been convicted of prior offenses.
  • Reverting back to crime, for instance after being released from prison.