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So you’re saying people who have committed a crime more than once tend to commit crimes more than once? This doesn’t sound particularly surprising.

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I'm saying that once someone has a couple of convictions, the change that they will commit crime again is about 100%, which sadly goes against the nice idea that people in our prisons "return as reasonably normal members of the society".

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