This report from the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) presents findings on recidivism of females from BJS’s study on persons released from state prison across 34 states in 2012. The report compares females and males by their commitment offenses, recidivism patterns during the 5 years following release (from 2012 to 2017), and post-release offenses.

The report found that, during the 5 years after their release in 2012, more than half of females (55%, compared to 66% of males) who were serving time for a violent offense were arrested for another offense, while more than a third (38%, compared to 49% of males) had a new conviction for any offense, and about a fourth (27%, compared to 43% of males) were returned to prison.

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