Common Indicators of Recidivism Used in Program and Policy Evaluations
August 2, 2022
SPR and Mathematica conducted an implementation study of Reentry Project grants. Christian Geckeler and colleagues from Mathematica authored a brief reviewing literature on recidivism and recidivism
indicators from 2000 to 2022 to answer the following questions:
1) What are common recidivism indicators used in criminal justice research? What are the strengths
and challenges of each of these indicators?2) What are common recidivism data sources? What are the strengths and challenges of each of
these data sources?