Correspondence analysis for detecting risk factors for criminal recidivism

Abstract

Correspondence analysis was used in the work to identify associations between criminal recidivism and the following elements of criminal histories of criminals: sex, age at the time of the first conviction to the actual degree of punishment, age at the time of the first conviction to the suspended or actual sentence, educational level, type of employment at the time of conviction, availability of early releases, availability of suspended sentences, availability of motivation for the release. The conducted empirical analysis made it possible to draw conclusions about the existence of a direct relationship between the risk of criminal recidivism with the age at the time of the first conviction to the suspended and/or actual sentence, the level of education obtained, the type of employment, the presence of early releases, previous conditional convictions and the lack of correlation between the fact of committing repeated criminal offenses and the gender and motivation of the convicts for release.