The Pros And Cons Of Recidivism

According to Hill Harper,“Once you have a felony conviction on your record, one of the most difficult things to do is to break the cycle of recidivism”(Hill Harper, 1966). Once you’re claimed to be a criminal the likelihood of you continuing your past behavior skyrockets. As a child, I believedI grew up believing that we all make mistakes and that the only way forward is to learn from them. To push yourself through the whatever wall that you have’ve created is the same as building your future block by block. However, it seemsseemsis seemingly impossible to push forward after society has tagged you a felon. Therefore,, the wall created seems to be built to be unbreakable. Felons have virtually no ability to be reintroduced into society, and

While thisThis may sound obviousseem like an obvious statement, but it says a lot about the criminal justice system. How can we expect recidivism rates to go down if the rewarding path doesn’t even exist? The answer is plain and simple. The criminal justice system needs to make resocialization not only easier to achieve, but also to make it awarding, and more beneficial than going back to criminal activity. If you can notcan’t even get a minimum-wage job at Baskin-Robbin after being released from prison, why would in hell wouldn’t you go back to making thousands of dollars pera week off of hardcore drug

Christopher Uggen...as many as 47 million Americans have a criminal history file on record and could therefore impacted by these various disclosures...individuals range of jobs, including work as embalmers, billiard room employees, septic tank cleaners, plumbers, eyeglass dispensers, barbers and real estate agents...situation is far different in the rest of the world (consistent with the overall harshness of the American criminal justice