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Recidivism Rate

Data from Jan 2005 to Dec 2020

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:44 SGT

SPS (Singapore Prison Service)

Recidivism rate is defined as the percentage of local offenders under the custody of the Singapore Prison Service, who were subsequently detained or sentenced to imprisonment or day reporting order within two years of release into the community. This definition has been applied to the 2018 release cohort onwards.

Data is updated as per end 2020, for the full 2 year 2018 release cohort.

Recidivism Rate

Data explorer

RecidivismRate.csv (48 rows, 1 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Types Of Recidivism Rates Text	2 Year Recidivism Rates Numeric (Percentage)
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2005	OVERALL	24.2
2005	PENAL INMATES	24.3
2005	DRC INMATES	13.2
2006	OVERALL	25.1
2006	PENAL INMATES	25.5
2006	DRC INMATES	9.9
2007	OVERALL	26.5
2007	PENAL INMATES	26.7
2007	DRC INMATES	20.4
2008	OVERALL	27.3

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Types Of Recidivism Rates	types_of_recidivism_rates	Text	-	-
2 Year Recidivism Rates	2_year_recidivism_rates	Numeric (Percentage)	-	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the data catalogue of this dataset. For a complete guide on query parameters and syntax, please refer to the API documentation. Try it out on your browser to see the response schema.

import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_7f7de77c2e375288eb25690297c327ea"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Singapore Prison Service. (2016). Recidivism Rate (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved November 5, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_7f7de77c2e375288eb25690297c327ea/view

About this dataset

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feedback@data.gov.sg

Created on

29 Mar 2016

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

SPS (Singapore Prison Service)