Jordan News

An official government study conducted by the Ministry of Justice showed that Jordanian women commit about 111 crimes daily.

According to the study that dealt with crimes committed in Jordan between the years 2013-2017, the number of those who committed crimes amounted to about one million people, of whom 80.5 percent were males.

The study indicated that most of the inmates of the reform centers under study are married, and 39.2 percent of the inmates who were studied said that they committed more than one crime.

The study, entitled “Crime, recidivism, and coping strategies in Jordanian society”, identified the factors that play a major role in recidivism, as some of them were attributed to factors related to the individual’s conditions before imprisonment, the events that occurred during his imprisonment, and the period after his release from prison. , whether in the short or long term.

According to the results of the study, 50.4 percent of the inmates of correctional centers said that the reason for their return to crime was the lack of job opportunities for them in the labor market, and 30.4 percent said that the reason was the availability of living in prison for free, while 36.4 percent explained that the reason for returning to crime is the continuation of their relationship. bad companions outside these centers, and 47.1 percent lies in the society’s lack of acceptance of them and the negative view of them after their exit, while 51.6 percent said that the reason is the absence of societal deterrence and religious scruples.

She emphasized that one of the main reasons behind their return to prison lies in the difficulty they find in adapting to normal life outside prison, restoring relations with their families, and also returning to high-risk places.

She pointed out that other studies have found that there are psychological and social factors represented in the pressures facing the perpetrator after serving the sentence, as he is subjected to social humiliation and abandonment by the people around him, and the negative society view of him, which causes a gap between him and social integration or the so-called The stigma that constitutes a heavy social and psychological burden on him.