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criminogenic

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crim·i·no·gen·ic  (krm-n-jnk) also crim·o·gen·ic (krm-)
adj.
Producing or tending to produce crime or criminality: "Alcohol is the most criminogenic substance in America" (James B. Jacobs).


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From the various contributions to the book, we can conclude that the rehabilitation, deterrence and incapacitation benefits of incarceration are probably fairly well-balanced by criminogenic effects on ex-offenders, their families and their communities.
In measuring benefits, contributors focus on the standard topics of deterrence, incapacitation, and rehabilitation, but when discussing costs they focus on those factors that have received less attention, including whether prisons have criminogenic effects on inmates, the extent of the association between parental incarceration and childhood outcomes, impacts on state budgets, and impacts of imprisonment on employment.
Last week he complained that phrases such as the "criminogenic needs of offenders" send him "nuts", and one must guess that the madness started in 1998, when he himself hailed Home Office research "designed to assess the specific criminogenic factors associated with offending by women.
 
 
 
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