Associations to the word «Recidivism»

Wiktionary

RECIDIVISM, noun. Committing new offenses after being punished for a crime.
RECIDIVISM, noun. (psychology) (psychiatry) Chronic repetition of criminal or other antisocial behavior.
RECIDIVISM, noun. (by extension) Returning to a negative behavior after having stopped it for a period of time.

Dictionary definition

RECIDIVISM, noun. Habitual relapse into crime.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats