Recidivation

Recidiuation into ſinne maketh the former repentãce fruſtrate.

Investigation of recidivation during the postparole period revealed the fact that 23.6 per cent of the cases were found to be nondelinquent (meaning thereby, cases “who abandoned their delinquencies immediately on discharge from the reformatory or before the end of the end parole”); […]

The social conditions of these inmates would generally not have been examined in attempts to explain their high rate of incarceration and recidivation; rather, this kind of rationalization permitted the conclusion that the inmates, as individuals, had chosen to commit crimes and that their situations were entirely their own responsibility.