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Recidivism (n.) aims not at the author of an act but at the delinquent subject himself — a will that shows an intrinsically criminal character; criminality, not crime, becomes the target.
Recidivism (n.) is manufactured by police surveillance of ex-convicts: the gilder of Rouen, barred from his trade and his town, fed on fourteen sous a day, 'wanted to become an honest man again; the surveillance plunged me back into misfortune'.