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1796 F.-A.-F. de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt On Prisons Philadelphia 44 Five convicts only, of those belonging strictly to the new order, have been reconvicted; of these, three were negroes, and two whites.

1850 Southern Q. Rev. Nov. 360 Three hundred and fifteen of the prisoners had been reconvicted, or they had been ascertained to have been in prisons before.

1884 Contemp. Rev. July 73 (note) An old offender was re-convicted for a violent assault upon a woman.

1943 Times 24 Mar. 5/7 The licence can be revoked only if he leaves his job without the permission of the association, changes his address without permission, mixes with anyone who is in trouble or looking for trouble, disobeys directions given by the association..or is reconvicted.

1971 Criminal Law Rev. 390 The numbers reconvicted in 1969.

1992 M. Urban Big Boys' Rules xiv. 134 Government figures showed that only about 15 per cent of those imprisoned for terrorist offences were reconvicted—a much lower rate than for many other crimes.

2002 G. Maxwell & A. Morris in Restorative Justice xiii. 280 Not being made to feel a bad person or a bad parent..was significantly related to not being reconvicted.

1892 Daily News 2 Dec. 6/6 Were it the rule..that a longer sentence was to be expected at each reconviction, crime would at once largely diminish.

1909 Rep. Commissioners of Prisons i. 15 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 4847) XLV. 133 The highest proportion of re-convictions is in this class no less than 40 per cent.

1976 Howard Jrnl. 15 i. 7 Striking variations in reconviction rates.

2006 Independent 10 Oct. 33/4 A recent study found that victims who take part in this process report very high levels of satisfaction and very low levels of reconviction.