NCJ Number
250889
Date Published
2017
Length
0 pages
Annotation
This is the home web page of the U.S. Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) that provides access to the BJS Prisoner Recidivism Analysis Tool - 1994 (PRAT-1994), which uses data collected by BJS on a sample of persons released from State prisons in 1994 and followed for a 3-year period.
Abstract
The PRAT-1994 defines recidivism in a variety of ways and enables users to choose the measure that best fits their needs or to compare the various measures of recidivism for the same group of releasees. The web page advises that given the changes in the characteristics of the U.S. prison population, an increase in the number of States participating in the study, and improvements made to the Nation's criminal history records since the mid-1990s, direct comparisons of the recidivism estimates generated by the PRAT-1994 on prisoners released in 15 States in 1994 should not be directly compared to the PRAT-2005 on prisoners released in 30 States in 2005. The web page tabs for the PRAT-1994 are titled "What is Recidivism," "Analysis," "Method," and "Definitions."