RECIDIVISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does recidivism mean? 

• RECIDIVISM (noun)
  The noun RECIDIVISM has 1 sense:

1. habitual relapse into crime

  Familiarity information: RECIDIVISM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECIDIVISM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Habitual relapse into crime

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("recidivism" is a kind of...):

backsliding; lapse; lapsing; relapse; relapsing; reversion; reverting (a failure to maintain a higher state)

Derivation:

recidivate (go back to bad behavior)

recidivist (someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior)

recidivist (someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior))