U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics -

A report examining the re-offending pattern of former prisoners in the span of a 9 year period. 67,966 prisoners were randomly sampled from prisoner records obtained from the state department of corrections across 30 states from 2005 to 2014. Study found 83% of prisoners were arrested at least once during the 9 years following their release of which, property offenders were more likely to reoffend than violent offenders.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics is a component of the Office of Justice Programs in the Department of
Justice and is the primary source of criminal justice statistics in the U.S.

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^{Keywords: recidivism, desistance, demographics, violent offenses, property offenses, drug offenses, public order offenses, national}