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BJS has revamped and enhanced the Recidivism Patterns Explorer (RPE), formerly the Prisoner Recidivism Analysis Tool (PRAT). The RPE allows users to select graphs and tables with recidivism rates on cohorts of released prisoners by their demographic characteristics, criminal histories, and commitment offenses. It includes results from BJS’s national studies on persons released from state prisons in 2005, 2008, and 2012. The tool presents recidivism patterns according to three measures: persons with a new arrest following release, persons with a new conviction following release, and persons who returned to prison.
Updates to the tool include new functionality allowing users to filter and produce estimates using up to two characteristics, such as rearrest rates by offense type and by age. This latest iteration includes our largest sample to date, with arrests records covering more states than the previous version of the tool.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice is the principal federal agency responsible for collecting, analyzing, and disseminating reliable statistics on crime and criminal justice in the United States.
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