Committing a crime again after being freed is a consequential phenomenon,with some deep-set reasons and far-reaching outcomes . The most significant contribution to this is the fact that criminals often cannot find a proper shelter or an employment to live on by, which leaves not only just them, but also the community under the massive burden of financial costs to pay for their rearrest and the other incurred procedures in between,also a huge rise in the crime rates in the area they invade.
Oftentimes the criminal record of the person released is seen to be a red flag, while searching for a place to stay after the imprisonment. As the re-offender gets released, finding a safe haven to stay becomes their number one priority. But their last place of stay closing its doors on them sure leaves the guilty in a devastated state of mind to be able to find anywhere to live, driving them back into their old ways. Moreover, acceptance into decent-paying jobs also becomes a challenge due to the stigma at the office or their lack of qualifications. Therefore they find themselves struggling to make an honest living, recommitting to their crime once again.
As a consequence, the rising rate of offenders’ cases invokes fear among ordinary citizens, ending with them resorting to exodus as the last option; gives rise to fostering criminalistic mentality among the youth and extending the list of offenders and even more victims of the new crimes , all the while compromising and reducing public safety . Further it financially strains taxpayer stratum as they may have to invest in the charges of the court proceedings that involve the criminal’s incarceration and the maintenance of the overcrowded jails.
To sum up, re-offenders repeat their past crimes thanks mainly to the lack of stable housing or limited ability to land a paying job, while affecting the community badly through their financial dead-weight at the cost of their recidivism.