rearrest
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- noun
- /ˌriːəˈrɛst/
- Specialized
- A representative of Pretrial Services reminded both media and lawmakers that the program's risk assessment instrument was an actuarial tool designed to calculate the risk of more mundane possibilities, such as rearrest or failure to appear in court, and it was never intended to predict an exceptional incident such as a mass shooting.
- rearrest distributions
- rearrest estimates
Examples
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If police tend to repeatedly arrest the same people for similar offenses (high proportion of rearrests), this population is expected to be quite limited in scope.
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While rearrest is often used in evaluation research, it has been criticized for the amount of Type 1 error it introduces (see Maltz, 1984).
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It may be less effective in other contexts, such as rearrest distributions that include an important subgroup of repeatedly arrested offenders.
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Similarly, the higher the odds of rearrest in a given distribution of arrestees for a given offense, the smaller the pool of susceptibles yet to be arrested (for example, Collins & Wilson, 1990).
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The Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, using similar methodologies but focusing on rearrests, estimated 315,000 narcotic addicts nationally (Holahan, 1972).
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The judge ordered the defendant's rearrest due to new evidence in the case.
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After being released, he struggled to stay out of trouble, leading to his rearrest just weeks later.
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Many social programs aim to lower rates of rearrest among former inmates by providing support services.
Synonyms
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Being held by police or officials for a short time
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Rearrest comes from the prefix re- meaning 'again' and arrest meaning 'take into custody'. So a rearrest is being put back in police custody after release.