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Recidivists: Their past and Families Compared with First Time only Prisoners

Recidivists: Their past and Families Compared with First Time only Prisoners AUST & NZ JOURNAL OF CRI~'1INOLOGY (June 1980) 1:3 (117-12:3) RECIDIVISTS: THEIR PAST AND FAMILIES COMPARED WITH FIRST TIME ONLY PRISONERS Karl M Kollero and Sylvia D Cosden] The penal system differentially reaps its inmates from the ubiquitous and mostly trivia; delinquency and criminality reported from the community. In this selective process intrude such factors as patterns of police activity, court attitudes and changing definitions of crime determining which individual is sentenced to prison. Whilst there are various classifications of men in prison, two contrasting groups stand out. There is a class of men who so persistently offend that detection is inevitable, who are repeatedly convicted and who return to prison on many occasions. By contrast, there are inmates who experience one imprisonment and never return. It is hypothesized that the recidivists and first time prisoners would differ numerically on demographic, criminal, delinquent, psychiatric and sociological criteria. Further, these characteristics for each group of prisoners might show a patterning of relationships which would further differentiate the groups and point to aetiological processes. Material and Methods A group of recidivists was sought from prisoners serving sentences at the Risdon Prison, Tasmania's only prison. (Tasmania is the island State of Australia http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology SAGE

Recidivists: Their past and Families Compared with First Time only Prisoners

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AUST & NZ JOURNAL OF CRI~'1INOLOGY (June 1980) 1:3 (117-12:3) RECIDIVISTS: THEIR PAST AND FAMILIES COMPARED WITH FIRST TIME ONLY PRISONERS Karl M Kollero and Sylvia D Cosden] The penal system differentially reaps its inmates from the ubiquitous and mostly trivia; delinquency and criminality reported from the community. In this selective process intrude such factors as patterns of police activity, court attitudes and changing definitions of crime determining which individual is sentenced to prison. Whilst there are various classifications of men in prison, two contrasting groups stand out. There is a class of men who so persistently offend that detection is inevitable, who are repeatedly convicted and who return to prison on many occasions. By contrast, there are inmates who experience one imprisonment and never return. It is hypothesized that the recidivists and first time prisoners would differ numerically on demographic, criminal, delinquent, psychiatric and sociological criteria. Further, these characteristics for each group of prisoners might show a patterning of relationships which would further differentiate the groups and point to aetiological processes. Material and Methods A group of recidivists was sought from prisoners serving sentences at the Risdon Prison, Tasmania's only prison. (Tasmania is the island State of Australia

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Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology – SAGE

Published: Jun 1, 1980

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