What I found most interesting in the The Changing State of Recidivism article was the table of statistics about small differences in prisoner characteristics at the end of the methodology section that showed the different original offenses, genders, and age at release year for prisoners from 23 states. This was done with three different columns that compared the percentage of the group that was released in 2005, the percentage of the group that was released in 2012, and showed the difference between these two. \u00a0A few different aspects of this chart stuck out to me. The first thing was the difference between the male and female release percentages. First off, in both the 2005 release and the 2012 release, the difference in male to female release percentages is approximately 76%, males being the higher percentage in both cases. The ratio of male to females being released was extremely high, much higher than I would have guessed, and it was practically consistent from 2005 to 2012. In addition, from 2005 to 2012, the male release percentage decreased by exactly 0.4% and the female percentage increased by exactly 0.4%. This shows that although there is an extremely high male to female release ratio, it is potentially getting lower very slowly over time. The other aspect of the chart that interested me was the fact that the 18-34 year old age group release rate from 2005 to 2012 increased (by 0.4%) and the 35-54 year old age group actually decreased by 3.0%. For some reason that middle age group of 25-54 is decreasing its release rate over time, while the younger age group of 18-34 is very slowly increasing. A final aspect of the chart that stood out to me was that violence crime release rates increased by 3.0% from 2005 to 2012, while drug crime release rates decreased by 4.3%. Both of these are somewhat significant changes, and led me to contemplate why each occurred. <\/span><\/p>\n

As for something a classmate said, I would like to reference Mia Gates annotation saying \u201cImportant to note that the data was submitted voluntarily. That makes me wonder why certain states opted out, and if certain data was omitted.\u201d I thought this was an interesting point and made me think about which states were included in the data and why. I noted that only two of the northeast states (New York, Pennsylvania) volunteered their information about recidivism and pondered why there was such a lack of representation from the northeast, the place where I go to school and live at home.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What I found most interesting in the The Changing State of Recidivism article was the table of statistics about small differences in prisoner characteristics at the end of the methodology section that showed the different original offenses, genders, and age at release year for prisoners from 23 states. This was done with three different columns … <\/p>\n

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