11. Retsidiivsus Eestis - Justiitsministeerium

RETSIDIIVSUS EESTIS 2010
RETSIDIIVSUS EESTIS 2010
Definition of recidivism in the study
RECIDIVISM IN ESTONIA
Andri Ahven, Jako Salla, Siim Vahtrus
In this study recidivism means the commission of a new criminal offence and
its indicator is interrogation of a person as a suspect after release from prison,
conviction in the court or termination of proceedings. In view of the presumption
of innocence this approach is not legally correct – we cannot claim that a
person has committed a criminal offence until a judgement of conviction has
been enforced with respect to the person. Therefore, it has to be remembered
that if the commission of a new criminal offence is discussed in this study, this
does not refer to a legal assessment; instead this is a simplification made in the
interests of comprehensibility of text.
In case of the recidivism of convicted offenders we mean people whom
the court did not impose any actual prison sentence, i.e. people who had the
possibility to commit new criminal offences while at large.
More data available here: www.just.ee/recidivism
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