Reading the Pew research on recidivism, and seeing loads of important info missing (tons of states, people who died in the examined period, people who got arrested in other states etc.), my first instinct was to shout “False! The data and the research is shady! Case closed!” (a bit like Jonathan in his response<\/a>, but less eloquently). But then I thought of something that came up in a group discussion in class in relation to the Eviction Lab reading, namely, that sometimes you just have to do the best you can with the data that’s available, and maybe having stats from lackluster data is better than not having any.<\/p>\n

Therefore I think we should think about the responsibility of government institutions in compiling and publishing reliable data on important issues such as recidivism.<\/p>\n

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