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studies suggest that two thirds of adult offenders will be rearrested within 3 years of being released from prison. compared to adult offenders, do we know about how many juvenile offenders will be rearrested within a few years of their release from detention?

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The highest juvenile recidivism rates were 76% within three years and 84% within five years. A study by Joseph Doyle, a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology, found that 40% of juvenile offenders ended up in adult prison for crimes committed by the time they reached the age of 25

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