reoffends
Breaks law again
Reoffends means to commit a crime again after having been convicted or punished for a previous offense.
The term appears almost exclusively in legal and criminological contexts: Studies show that inmates who receive education are less likely to reoffend.
The noun form is reoffender.
Return to former illness
- repeatDo or say again
- habitualDone by routine
- chronicPersisting over time
- recurrentHappening multiple times
backslide · reincarceration · reversion · regression · recurrence · pattern · cycle · persistent
Conditional early release
- probationSupervised trial period
- violationBreaking of rules
- convictJailed offender after trial
- incarcerationConfinement in jail
prison · custody · corrections · supervision · monitoring · release · conditional · sentence
Purposeful involvement to change course
- treatmentCare for an ailment
- programPlanned sequence of actions
- counselingProfessional guidance for problems
- therapyCurative mental treatment
support · reintegration · reform · prevention · aftercare · mentoring · services · community
relapse
Return to former illness
recurrent · backslide · reincarceration · reversion · regression · recurrence · pattern · cycle · persistent · serial
parole
Conditional early release
incarceration · prison · custody · corrections · supervision · monitoring · release · conditional · sentence · court
intervention
Purposeful involvement to change course
- treatmentCare for an ailment
- programPlanned sequence of actions
- counselingProfessional guidance for problems
therapy · support · reintegration · reform · prevention · aftercare · mentoring · services · community · housing
reoffendsrehabilitates
Returns to good condition
reforms · desists · recovers · reintegrates · abstains