Recidivism update : program recidivism rates, FY 2007 / Department of Juvenile Justice

Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice
Recidivism Report Fiscal Year 2007

Table of Contents

Introduction

2

Methodology

3

Release Population

6

Recidivism of Release Population

10

Time to Failure

14

Juvenile Cohort Methodology

15

Recidivism by District and County

17

Appendix A

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Appendix B

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Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice Recidivism Report 2009

August 2009 Planning Research and Program Evaluation Josh Cargile, Programmer Analyst Art Seavey, ESTIS Group Consultant Sheila Hunter, Director
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Introduction

The Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) recidivism report measures all juvenile releases into the community and follows them until the end of a three- year follow-up period or until a subsequent adjudicated offense.

During fiscal year 2007, DJJ released 12,062 unique juveniles into the community while under DJJ supervision, or after DJJ supervision. Due to repeated releases by individual youth, the total sum of unique releases was 13,754. Within a one- year follow-up period of each release, 32.7 percent of releases ended in recidi- vating events.

Fiscal Year 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
All Fiscal Years

Juveniles 12,884 13,909 13,429 12,261 12,062 49,907

Releases 14,804 15,986 15,517 14,051 13,754 74,112

One-year delinquent recidivism rate
27.4 30.0 31.5 32.0 32.7

DJJ's release population has been decreasing in number every year since 2004, but its recidivism rate has been increasing each year since 2003. This report in- vestigates these trends in the context of juvenile risks, initial offenses, recidivat- ing offenses, and other influencing factors. This report also provides the results of alternate recidivism approaches to facilitate comparison with other states.

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Methodology

This report analyzes juvenile release co- horts. Release cohorts are distinct from ju- venile cohorts in that a juvenile can have multiple releases. Each release begins with the first day a youth becomes "at risk" for reoffending in the community and ends af- ter three years or the day a new qualifying offense occurs.

DJJ's Recidivism Definition
Adjudication for delinquent or criminal acts after a juvenile is released into the community while under DJJ supervision or after DJJ supervision

Juveniles
For the purposes of this report, Georgia classifies a juvenile as any individual who is: (A) Under the age of 17 years old; (B) Under the age of 21 years, who committed an act of delinquency before reaching the age of 17 years, and who has been placed under the supervision of the court or on probation to the court; or (C) Under the age of 18 years, if alleged to be a "deprived child" or a "status of- fender".

DJJ Supervision
This report investigates recidivating events for juveniles who have been placed under DJJ supervision on probation, short term placement, or as committed youth. A juvenile who receives an informal adjustment or is transferred to Supe- rior Court is not considered under DJJ supervision. Also, juveniles who serve their probation under Independent Court Services1 are not under DJJ supervision. Most metro counties are served by fully Independent courts. Juveniles super- vised through Independent Court Services represent approximately half of Geor- gia's probated juveniles and are not captured in this analysis.

1. The seventeen counties with Independent courts are Chatham, Clayton, Cobb, Columbia, Crawford, DeKalb, Dougherty, Floyd, Fulton, Glynn, Gordon, Gwinnett, Hall, Peach, Spalding, Troup, and Whitfield. This report does not capture recidivating events following probation from these counties.

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Methodology
Release into the Community
Measured time to recidivating events begins at the point of a juvenile's release into the community. This point may be at the start of a new probation or com- munity commitment or when a juvenile is released from secure confinement. Measurement begins at the point of release into the community because this is when the youth has the opportunity to commit a new offense and impact public safety. This approach also facilitates comparison among dispositional groups by disregarding the time a juvenile is held in secure confinement. Most offenders are still under DJJ supervision when they are released to community on proba- tion, in aftercare or in residential placements.
Recidivating Events
Rather than tracking a juvenile cohort, our recidivism rate captures each release into the community and subsequent recidivating event. This methodology cap- tures multiple recidivating events for the same juvenile as unique recidivating events. This approach focuses on outcomes by placement rather than legal status.
Follow up Period
Recidivism is measured for a period of at least one year from time of release into community and extended two or three years depending on data availability at the time of reporting. The majority of recidivism, as observed by Georgia DJJ and other states, occurs within the first year --marking an important window for analysis. The extended follow up period of three years describes long term out- comes.
This method of examining all releases to the community during a single year, while following juveniles for a three-year at-risk period, is carried out for FY2003 through FY2007. By definition, full three-year follow up periods have not oc- curred for FY2006 or FY2007.

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Methodology

Linking to Adult Corrections
A juvenile may legally be an adult during the at-risk follow up period after their release into the community. Juvenile records are linked with adult conviction data so that adult recidivating events are captured in our analysis. The data pro- vided by Georgia Department of Corrections provides the offense date for incar- cerated adult offenders and the probation start date for probated adult offend- ers. Since our juvenile recidivism analysis uses the date of offense in our analy- sis, we estimated the adult probation date of offense by subtracting an estimated average court processing time (90 days) from the probation start date. This re- port does not capture multiple adult criminal offenses since once a juvenile has been tried in adult court they are no longer released from DJJ.
Originating versus Recidivating Offenses
Originating offense is the juvenile offense associated with a specific release into the community. Recidivating offense is the recidivating event after a youth is re- lease into the community.
Status versus Delinquent Offenses
A youth may start in a release group with either a delinquent or status originating offense. However, the recidivating offense type can be analyzed as being either delinquent, criminal or status recidivism. Delinquent offenses are juvenile misde- meanor or felony offenses. Criminal offenses are adult offenses. Delinquent and Criminal offenses are combined into the total delinquent recidivism rates.
Status offenses are those acts committed by youth that would not be considered legally valid were the juvenile an adult at the time of the offense. As such, status offenses are lesser offenses. They do not indicate the same level of recidivism or public safety impact and will be monitored separately.
Single, Most Serious Offense
For each release event, an offender may be adjudicated on multiple offenses. The recidivism dataset takes into account only the single, most serious offense re- lated to the current adjudication or conviction.

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Release Population

During the 2007 fiscal year, 12,062 unique juveniles were released into the com- munity after a juvenile judicial adjudication. Some juveniles were released multi- ple times within a year. There were 13,754 total releases in FY2007.

Similarly, since many juveniles re- offend over multiple years, the sum of unique

juveniles in each year is more than the total unique juveniles released from

Ex 1: Releases and Unique Juveniles in

Release Group by Fiscal Year

Fiscal Year Releases Juveniles

2003

14,804 12,884

2004

15,986 13,909

2005

15,517 13,429

2006

14,051 12,261

2007

13,754 12,062

All Fiscal Years 74,112 49,907

FY2003 to FY2007.

During the past four years, the number of juve-

niles released and the number of releases both

decreased by nearly Ex 2: Releases by Race, FY 2007

14 percent. A ma- jor portion of this

Hispanic Other 4.2% 1.3%

decrease is attribut-

able to the decrease in white juvenile releases which

dropped 25 percent from 6,405 releases in 2003 to

White

5,118 releases in 2007. With a comparatively stable

37%

Black

number of black releases, the proportion of black

57%

youth released from DJJ increased from 52 percent to

57 percent.

Ex 3: Releases by Disposition, FY 2003 and FY 2007

The disposition of the

1.2%

youth at the time of

2003

49.5%

their release has

15.6%

16.6% 6.1% 5.6% 5.3%

shifted slightly from
0.7%
2003 to 2007. The

proportion of releases 2007

49.2%

9.4%

24.0%

5.3% 7.0% 4.3%

on probation, which

can be considered the

lowest level of entry

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Release Population

into the agency, has remained very stable. How- Ex 4: Releases by Gender, FY 2007

ever, the use of Short-Term Placement (STP) seems

to have converted to use of STP plus probation. Also, releases from committed residential place- ments have slightly increased while releases from

Female 25%

Youth Development Campuses (YDC) have slightly

decreased.

Male

75%

The gender break-down by disposition exhibits a

3:1, male to female, ratio for all dispositions except

for the increase in the Ex 5: Gender by Disposition, All Fiscal Years

proportion of females

on probation and the

Female
30.5%

decrease in the pro-

69.5%

24.5% 75.5%

23.2% 76.8%

22.6% 77.4%

25.0% 75.0%

23.2% 76.8%

13.1% 86.9%

portion of females in Male

YDC commitment.

Just over half of those

released from DJJ had

no delinquent history

prior to the offense

Ex 6: Adjudication History Prior to

they were being released on. As such, over half of Originating Offense, FY 2007

DJJ's juvenile population made contact with DJJ for the first time.

> 3> 3 8.08.%2%

Exhibit 7 shows the originating offense of those

released into the community by fiscal year. Al- though the number of misdemeanors and felonies have remained relatively steady, there has been a

1 to3193t.o2%3 38.8%

No Priors
No52P.r6i%ors
53.2%

decline in the number of status offenses. This may be due to improvements in graduated sanc-

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Release Population

tions and limits on entry Ex 7: Severity of Originating Offense by Fiscal Year

into STP.

7,599

7,818

DJJ primarily serves youth Misdemeanor 6,544

6,762

6,937

entering DJJ supervision

Felony

4,748

5,014

4,943

5,257

5,053

between the ages of 14

and 16 years old. Exhibit Status 3,017

2,992

2,473

8 shows the offence

1,879

1,647

types by age from the

least serious to the most serious. Generally speak-

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

ing, youth participation in more serious acts peak at age 16 while participation in

less serious acts peak at age 15. While DJJ continues to serve juveniles who turn

17 while under DJJ supervision, any new acts are processed in the adult system.

20,000

Ex 8: Severity of Originating Offense by Age at Time of Disposition, All Fiscal Years

15,000
10,000
5,000
0 8

Violent and Violent Sex

Property

Weapons Violation

Drug Selling

Drug Use

Sex Non-violent

Public Order and Traffic

Technical Violation M/F

Status

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

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Release Population

DJJ developed a validated assessment tool for identifying youth needs and their

risk for reoffending. The Comprehensive Risk and Needs assessment (CRN) is ad-

ministered at the time of entry into DJJ's care (except when a youth is placed in

STP alone). The use of the Ex 9: Releases Receiving a Comprehensive Risk and Needs

CRN has improved signifi- Assessment by Disposition, FY 2003 and FY 2007

cantly between FY 2003 and FY 2007. The biggest

FYF2Y0200303ReRleelaesaesses 727%3% 313%2% 696%7% 858%6% 969%6% 858%4% 595%5%

FFYY22000077 RReelleeaasseess 9912%% 3472%% 8887%% 9955%% 110000%% 110000%% 98%

improvement has been for

committed juveniles re-

leased from secure con-

Has HaCs RN

finement at the Youth De- CRN

velopment Campuses

No

CRN

(YDC Cmt.)

No

CRN

As juveniles enter deeper

levels of the juvenile jus-

tice system, the risk level

composition reflects in- creased likelihood of re- cidivating.

Ex 10: Risk Level of Releases by Disposition, All Fiscal Years

100%

HIGH

75% MED

50%

LOW 25%

0%

n/a

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Recidivism of Release Population

Ex 11: Recidivism Rates of All Releases by Fiscal Year

Delinquent Recidivism Rate (%) Years from Release into Community
One Two Three Total # 2003 27.4 8.4 4.4 40.2 5,947 2004 30.0 8.8 4.6 43.4 6,934 2005 31.5 7.9 4.0 43.4 6,740 2006 32.0 8.5 2007 32.7

Status Recidivism Rate (%) Years from Release into Community
One Two Three Total # 10.6 1.3 0.3 12.2 1,799 7.4 1.0 0.3 8.6 1,377 6.0 0.9 0.3 7.2 1,115 5.6 0.8 5.0

# Releases Not Recidivating
7,058 7,675 7,662

Exhibit 11 presents the one, two, and three year delinquent and status recidivism

rates for the entire release population by fiscal year. Delinquent recidivating

events have increased steadily from Fiscal Year 2003 to 2007. During this time-

period, status recidivating events have steadily decreased.

Ex 12: One Year Recidivism Rates by Race, FY 2007
38.2%

Delinquent

31.0%

Delinquent recidivism rates con- tinue to be disproportionately high for male and black populations.

24.7%

The status recidivism rate contin-

19.1%

ues to be disproportionately high

for females.

5.2%

4.6%

5.6%

7.9% Recidivism rates peak at the age of

Status

release of 14 years old.

Black

White

Hispanic

Ex 13: One Year Recidivism Rates by
Gender, FY 2007
35.9%

Other
Ex 14: One Year Recidivism Rates by Age at Release, FY 2007
50%
40%

Delinquent
4.0% Status Male

22.8% 8.0%
Female

30%

20%

Delinquent

10%
Status
0% 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

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Recidivism of Release Population

The severity of a recidivating offense is weakly predicted by the originating of- fense. A much stronger predictor of the severity of recidivating offense is the CRN risk score.

Ex 15: Severity of 1-year Recidivating Offense by Originating Offense, FY 2007 Recidivating Offense

None

Status Misdemeanor Felony

Felony

62.5%

2.7% 15.3%

19.1%

Originating Offense

Misdemeanor

63.5%

3.8% 22.2%

10.2%

Status

58.1%

17.4%

15.8% 8.4%

Ex 16: Severity of 1-year Recidivating Offense by CRN Risk Score, FY 2007 Recidivating Offence

None

Status Misdemeanor

High Risk

41.5%

4.5%

24.4%

Felony 29.7%

CRN Risk Score

Medium Risk

48.7%

5.2%

24.5%

21.6%

Low Risk

67.0%

5.3% 17.1%

10.6%

no CRN

61.9%

3.7% 21.0%

13.4%

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Recidivism of Release Population
Ex 17: One Year Delinquent Recidivism Rate by Disposition
41.3%

46.6% YDC Cmt. 45.1%Community Cmt.
42.9% STP + Probation

34.5% 34.6%
30.1%
24.9% 24.8% 22.2%

34.3% YDC + Residential Cmt. 32.8% STP
25.5% Probation 24.4% Residential Cmt.

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

Between FY 2003 and FY 2007 delinquent recidivism rates have increased. The

delinquent recidivism rate for juveniles who have been released from YDC com-

mitment increased most significantly by twelve percent. This increase may be re-

Ex 18: CRN Risk Scores of juveniles released from YDC by Fiscal Year

High

2007

Medium Low

19%

2% No CRN

39% 40%

lated to the increasing

2006

proportion of medium

0%

35% 44%
20%

or high level CRN risk scores of juveniles re- 2005
3%
leased from YDC.
2004

32% 39%
25%
26% 37%
21% 15%

* FY 2003 is eliminated from this graphic because over 45% of the 2003 YDC release population did not have CRN scores

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Recidivism of Release Population

Designated felons are a subgroup of the Committed population that require time

served in secure detention. Comparing designated felons to regular committed

juveniles shows that des- Ex 19: Delinquent Recidivism Rates by Years from Release, FY 2005

ignated felons have a

52%

lower recidivism rate.

48%

48%

Even when differences in CRN risk levels are ac- counted for, you see a persistent difference in the recidivism rates.

Regular Commitment
42%
36%
Designated Felons
28%

This difference may be

due to the maturity of

1

2

3

designated felons at time of their release.

Ex 20: Comparative Delinquent Recidivism Rates by CRN Risk Levels, FY 2005-07

Due to their generally longer stay in secure confinement the average age at release for desig- nated felons is 17 com- pared to 15 for regular committed juveniles.

35% 8%

35% 12%

44%
35%
Regular YDC Cmt.
DF YDC Cmt.

51% 40%

No CRN

Low

Med

High

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Recidivism: Time to Failure

Analysis of the time between a juvenile's release into the community and subse- quent recidivating events indicates that half of all expected recidivists commit a subsequent delinquent act by 286 days or within nine and a half months.

Ex 20: Cumulative Delinquent Recidivism Rate by Days from Release, All Fiscal Years
50%

40%

30%
half of all recidivists return within 286 days 20%

10%

0% 0

365

730

1095

Ex 21: Female and Male Delinquent Recidivism by Days from Release, All Fiscal Years
70%

60%

Male

50%

40% Female
30%

20%

10%

0% 0

365

730

1095

By fitting the time-to- failure curves, we can estimate that 55 per- cent of youth released that will recidivate within their lifetime. Broken down by gen- der: female recidivism is expected to level off at under 40 percent whereas male recidi- vism lingers to about 67 percent.
From this analysis, we also observe that the median time to return is significantly shorter for females than for males. Half of all fe- male recidivists return within 210 days, or seven months, while half of all male recidi- vists return within 329 days, or eleven months.

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Recidivism: Juvenile Cohort Methodology

Until now, this report has calculated recidivism as a measure of releases into the community, regardless of whether a juvenile appears multiple times within a group. This technique has implications for resource usage and public safety as each new offense is captured in the recidivism rate.

Other measures of recidivism track individual juveniles using a unique juvenile cohort approach. For purposes of comparison and because some information cannot be analyzed without the unique juvenile cohort methodology, the follow- ing section compares the DJJ recidivism rate with two alternate recidivism meas- ures.

Ex 22: Recidivism Outcomes using Three Methodologies, FY 2005 and FY 2007

A) Release Events B) Juvenile Cohort

Delinquent Recidivism Rate (%)

Status Recidivism Rate (%)

Years from Release into Community

Years from Release into Community

# Releases

One Two Three Total #

One

Two Three Total # Not Recidivating

2005 31.5 7.9 4.0 43.4 6,740

6.0

0.9 0.3 7.2 1,115

7,662

2007 32.7

5.0

# Juveniles

Not Recidivating

2005 29.3 7.9 4.1 41.2 5,539

5.8

0.9 0.3 7.0 939.0

6,951

2007 30.7

4.7

C) Juvenile Cohort

2005 23.5 7.0 3.8 34.2 2,816

5.5

1.1 0.3 6.9 571

[First Time Offenders Only] 2007 24.4

4.3

4,842

Methodology A is the release approach described and used in this report.

Methodology B, measures a unique set of juveniles released during a given year and determines what percentage of that starting population recidivates to at least one delinquent offense within the follow up period. This measurement dis- tinguishes between recidivating juveniles and non-recidivating juveniles but does not track multiple offenses by the same juvenile.

Methodology C only analyzes first-time offenders. This approach excludes previ- ous repeat offenders from the starting population in a given year because those recidivating juveniles were captured in previous years' recidivism rates. This ap- proach then follows methodology B by determining what percentage of the start- ing population recidivates.

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Recidivism: Juvenile Cohort Methodology

Methodology B is most commonly performed by Ex 23: Outcome of First Recidivating

other jurisdiction and as such this rate is more Event, FY 2007, Methodology B Cohort
with 1-year follow-up

suited for comparison to other adjudication-

based recidivism rates.

Adult Inmate Adult Probation

1%

1%

Methodology B and C both produce lower re-

cidivism rates than Methodology A. By exclud- ing repeat offenses (Methodology B) or repeat offenders (Methodology C), they discount the recidivism of chronic offenders.

No Recidivism 65%

Juvenile Delinquent
28%

That said, the juvenile cohort methodologies do

Status

5%

allow a much clearer analysis of the proportion

of juveniles who do not reoffend. From the FY

2007 release cohort with one-year follow-up, 70 percent of juveniles had no new

delinquent adjudications. That is a 30 percent delinquent recidivism rate. In comparison, the U.S. Department of Justice reports2 that states with similar re- cidivism measures3 averaged a 33 percent reconviction or re-adjudication rate.

2. H. Snyder, M Sickmund, "Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 2006 National Report." Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, March 2006, page 234.
3. Georgia DJJ recidivism measure is similar to those in Alaska, Florida, Kentucky, Maryland, North Dakota, Okla- homa and Virginia

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Recidivism by District and County

Further analysis of the recidivism measured as releases to the community, allows us to look at recidivism by physical state regions, districts and counties.

The map on the next page shows that many more youth are released into the

community in urban areas than rural areas, but their recidivism rate is not neces-

sarily higher.
For fiscal year 2007, At- lanta-metro District 3B had the highest rates of one-year delinquent re- cidivism. This was closely followed by the mostly rural District 10 in the south-west cor- ner of Georgia.

Ex 24: One Year Recidivism Rate by District, FY 2007

3B 10
9 3A
6 12
8 4 7 5 1 11 2 All Districts

2.6% 5.4%
2.5% 5.0%
2.9% 5.8%
4.7% 1.2%
5.8% 6.1% 2.7% 3.6% 5.0%

12.1%

20.4%

36.0% 35.9% 35.6% 34.8% 34.8% 34.5% 34.4% 32.9% 32.2% 29.0% 28.5% 28.3%
32.7%

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Mapped Release Population by County

Ex 25: Number of Releases by County of Residence, FY 2007

42

143

53

76 79

87

83

49

26

101

93

118

267

4 19
16

52 30

61

43

42 89 74

18 26

121

44

21 37

0 to 50 50 to 100 100 to 250 250 to 700

82 71
228
19

283 317

147 338

551

375 288

238

181

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307 126 65

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30

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10

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15
1

40 360

129

135 27 55 74

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94

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678 8
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595

11

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18

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12

28 89

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74 20

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Mapped Recidivism by County
Ex 26: One Year Delinquent Recidivism Rates by County of Residence, FY 2007

27%

24% 36%

16%

22%

31% 25%
36% 23%

28% 30% 29% 24%

19% 12%
26%

18% 18%

19%

21%

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36%

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30%

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0% to 20% 20% to 30% 30% to 35% 35% to 55%

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27%

22% 37%

27%

40% 33%

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YDC + Residential Cmt. Residential Cmt. Community Cmt. STP + Probation

Appendix A: Recidivism Rates by Disposition

Probation

STP

Delinquent Recidivism Rate (%) Years from Release into Community
One Two Three Total # 2003 22.2 7.2 3.5 32.9 2,413 2004 23.9 7.4 4.1 35.4 2,557 2005 24.6 6.7 3.7 35.0 2,460 2006 25.7 6.6 2007 25.5
One Two Three Total # 2003 30.1 8.0 4.8 42.8 991 2004 34.9 9.0 4.9 48.8 1,162 2005 34.1 8.2 4.7 47.0 1,048 2006 36.7 7.9 2007 32.8
One Two Three Total # 2003 34.5 8.0 3.5 46.0 1,133 2004 35.9 8.4 3.8 48.1 1,836 2005 40.0 7.8 3.7 51.5 1,987 2006 42.4 8.5 2007 42.9
One Two Three Total # 2003 41.3 8.9 4.4 54.7 455 2004 43.7 9.1 5.2 58.0 495 2005 44.5 8.4 3.7 56.5 555 2006 43.0 9.1 2007 45.1
One Two Three Total # 2003 24.8 13.4 8.9 47.1 429 2004 23.6 15.6 6.9 46.1 438 2005 21.4 15.1 6.4 42.9 313 2006 22.6 16.4 2007 24.4

Status Recidivism Rate (%) Years from Release into Community
One Two Three Total # 11.5 1.6 0.4 13.5 990 7.1 1.1 0.4 8.6 621 5.8 1.1 0.4 7.3 513 5.9 1.2 5.6
One Two Three Total # 9.5 0.6 0.0 10.2 236 7.4 0.7 0.1 8.2 195 5.6 0.4 0.0 6.1 137 5.4 0.5 3.9
One Two Three Total # 17.3 1.6 0.1 19.0 467 10.6 0.8 0.2 11.7 445 8.2 0.8 0.2 9.2 356 7.1 0.3 5.3
One Two Three Total # 3.7 0.7 0.2 40.6 39 3.6 0.8 0.1 37.4 39 4.5 0.5 0.0 38.5 49 3.9 0.6 3.9
One Two Three Total # 2.4 1.5 0.8 4.7 43 2.7 1.6 0.4 4.7 45 3.3 1.2 0.3 4.8 35 2.3 1.5 3.4

# Releases Not Recidivating
3,926 4,039 4,055
# Releases Not Recidivating
1,087 1,024 1,046
# Releases Not Recidivating
861 1,537 1,514
# Releases Not Recidivating
338 319 378
# Releases Not Recidivating
438 467 382

One Two Three Total # 2003 24.9 18.1 9.6 52.5 93 2004 36.7 21.1 3.9 61.7 79 2005 36.5 13.5 1.9 51.9 54 2006 31.3 21.7 2007 34.3
One Two Three Total # 2003 34.6 13.3 7.6 55.4 433 2004 36.0 13.1 8.3 57.4 367 2005 37.6 12.3 5.3 55.2 323 2006 39.2 15.1 2007 46.6

One Two Three Total # 2.8 1.1 0.0 4.0 7 5.5 0.8 0.0 6.3 8 1.0 1.0 2.9 4.8 5 2.6 - 2.0
One Two Three Total # 1.8 0.4 0.0 2.2 17 2.8 0.9 0.0 3.8 24 2.9 0.5 0.0 3.4 20 3.0 0.3 3.4

# Releases Not Recidivating
77 41 45
# Releases Not Recidivating
331 248 242

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Appendix B: Recidivism Rates by District

District 1

Delinquent Recidivism Rate (%) Years from Release into Community
One Two Three Total # 2003 20.4 7.5 3.7 31.5 423 2004 24.7 8.7 4.3 37.6 525 2005 26.5 7.6 4.2 38.3 552 2006 26.6 7.3 2007 28.5

Status Recidivism Rate (%) Years from Release into Community
One Two Three Total # 14.1 1.9 0.4 16.4 220 10.1 1.4 0.5 12.0 168 9.4 1.0 0.3 10.7 154 7.2 1.5 6.1

District 2

One Two Three Total # 2003 23.1 6.3 4.3 33.6 220 2004 21.8 7.8 3.8 33.4 240 2005 24.1 7.6 3.2 34.9 217 2006 23.8 6.5 2007 20.4

One Two Three Total # 10.1 2.3 0.0 12.4 81 10.3 1.8 0.4 12.5 90 7.9 1.0 0.3 9.2 57 4.1 0.5 3.6

District 3A

One Two Three Total # 2003 28.2 8.0 5.3 41.5 809 2004 32.0 9.4 4.3 45.7 933 2005 34.9 8.5 3.6 47.0 916 2006 33.0 8.5 2007 34.8

One Two Three Total # 9.5 1.1 0.2 10.7 209 6.3 0.6 0.1 7.1 144 5.4 0.6 0.4 6.5 126 4.9 1.1 5.0

District 3B

One Two Three Total # 2003 26.7 8.2 3.3 38.1 503 2004 31.1 8.6 4.7 44.4 617 2005 32.7 8.3 3.6 44.7 554 2006 34.5 8.2 2007 36.0

One Two Three Total # 14.8 0.6 0.2 15.6 206 6.4 1.2 0.2 7.8 108 4.4 0.7 0.2 5.3 66 3.6 1.0 2.6

District 4

One Two Three Total # 2003 25.7 9.2 4.0 38.9 402 2004 30.4 7.9 5.1 43.4 575 2005 32.9 8.0 4.0 44.8 522 2006 33.2 8.4 2007 32.9

One Two Three Total # 9.7 1.4 0.4 11.4 118 6.9 1.1 0.4 8.3 110 5.0 0.9 0.4 6.3 73 2.4 0.4 4.7

District 5

One Two Three Total # 2003 26.2 8.2 4.0 38.3 538 2004 29.1 7.4 3.7 40.2 636 2005 31.0 7.1 3.6 41.6 578 2006 29.0 8.8 2007 29.0

One Two Three Total # 12.2 2.6 0.7 15.5 217 7.0 1.3 1.0 9.3 147 5.7 1.7 0.3 7.6 106 4.6 1.1 5.8

District 6

One Two Three Total # 2003 30.8 7.3 3.8 41.9 519 2004 28.6 6.7 4.1 39.4 532 2005 29.4 6.8 2.7 38.9 497 2006 34.1 6.5 2007 34.8

One Two Three Total # 12.9 1.5 0.2 14.6 181 14.8 1.3 0.3 16.4 222 14.6 1.3 0.3 16.1 206 14.0 0.9 12.1

# Releases Not Recidivating
698 702 737
# Releases Not Recidivating
353 389 348
# Releases Not Recidivating
931 964 905
# Releases Not Recidivating
611 666 620
# Releases Not Recidivating
514 640 569
# Releases Not Recidivating
648 798 705
# Releases Not Recidivating
540 597 574

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Appendix B (continued): Recidivism Rates by District

District 7

Delinquent Recidivism Rate (%) Years from Release into Community
One Two Three Total # 2003 32.9 8.0 3.9 44.7 463 2004 32.6 9.8 5.4 47.9 525 2005 33.0 8.8 4.9 46.7 538 2006 32.0 9.9 2007 32.2

Status Recidivism Rate (%) Years from Release into Community
One Two Three Total # 8.0 0.3 0.3 8.6 89 4.6 0.6 0.0 5.3 58 2.5 0.4 0.0 2.9 34 3.4 0.1 1.2

District 8

One Two Three Total # 2003 33.2 10.8 4.2 48.2 441 2004 36.3 8.6 4.7 49.6 540 2005 38.6 8.2 4.1 51.0 583 2006 35.4 7.7 2007 34.4

One Two Three Total # 10.4 1.3 0.4 12.1 111 9.3 1.0 0.3 10.6 115 6.8 1.1 0.3 8.3 95 8.9 1.2 5.8

District 9

One Two Three Total # 2003 23.9 8.8 5.6 38.3 336 2004 28.1 10.7 4.9 43.7 359 2005 29.7 8.7 5.0 43.4 340 2006 31.4 9.4 2007 35.6

One Two Three Total # 11.5 1.8 0.3 13.7 120 6.1 0.9 0.0 6.9 57 4.7 1.1 0.4 6.3 49 3.7 0.4 2.5

District 10

One Two Three Total # 2003 24.9 9.6 4.5 39.0 376 2004 31.7 10.6 4.5 46.9 454 2005 34.0 8.3 4.2 46.5 465 2006 39.8 8.6 2007 35.9

One Two Three Total # 8.8 0.8 0.1 9.8 94 4.5 0.6 0.1 5.3 51 4.1 0.6 0.2 4.9 49 4.2 0.6 5.4

District 11

One Two Three Total # 2003 28.1 7.7 4.8 40.6 419 2004 28.1 7.1 5.7 40.9 487 2005 24.1 6.3 4.6 35.0 462 2006 25.9 10.2 2007 28.3

One Two Three Total # 8.3 1.2 0.3 9.8 101 5.3 0.3 0.3 5.9 70 4.3 0.8 0.1 5.2 68 4.4 1.0 2.7

District 12

One Two Three Total # 2003 32.3 10.0 5.7 48.0 498 2004 33.3 12.4 4.6 50.3 511 2005 35.4 9.7 4.8 50.0 516 2006 32.9 11.1 2007 34.5

One Two Three Total # 4.2 0.5 0.0 4.7 49 3.3 0.3 0.1 3.6 37 2.5 0.4 0.2 3.1 32 2.3 0.4 2.9

# Releases Not Recidivating
483 514 581
# Releases Not Recidivating
363 434 466
# Releases Not Recidivating
422 406 395
# Releases Not Recidivating
494 463 487
# Releases Not Recidivating
511 634 790
# Releases Not Recidivating
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