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Reducing Recidivism

The essence of the major problem confronting criminal corrections in the United States is the unacceptably high recidivism rate among the offenders who are processed through the system. Shock incarceration, or the prison boot camp concept, is one program developed to deal with the program (International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 1991, pp. 322327). Some evidence has been developed, however, that indicates that shock incarceration may not be effective in reducing the recidivism rate (Mackenzie, 1990, pp. 4452). The specific problem addressed by the policy described in this implementation plan is the reduction of the rate of recidivism among nonviolent offenders.

Crime in the United States, particularly violent crime, has been a major concern of the American population for decades. Although incumbent politicians, regardless of political affiliation, typically supply statistics to indicate that the crime problem has been and is being dealt with in an effective manner under their administrations, most people in the general population, particularly those residing in the country's urban areas, tend to perceive little improvement in the situation, regardless of what approach is being taken in the administration of criminal justice.

From the mid1970s through the mid1980s, the American prison population increased by 84 percentfrom approximately 285 thousand to around 524,000 (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1988, p. 413). Per 100 thousand population, the increase was from 129 to 216. Since the mid1980s, the prison population has continued to climb, however, at a slightly reduced rate (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1990, p. 413). In the contemporary period, nearly twopercent of all adults residing in the United States are in prison, in jail, on parole, or on probation (Ticer, 1989, pp. 8081).

The high proportion of the American population either incarcerated or under corrections supervisio...

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