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Definition of Recommittals
1. recommittal [n] - See also: recommittal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Recommittals
Literary usage of Recommittals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Prison Discipline Society by Mass.) Prison Discipline Society (Boston (1827)
"In Massachusetts, of two hundred and twenty-eight now in Prison, including a
number who have been in Prison a long time, sixty-seven are recommittals ; ie ..."
2. Reports of the Prison Discipline Society, Boston by Mass ) Prison Discipline Society (Boston, Boston Prison Discipline Society (1855)
"The proportion of the male juvenile recommittals to the whole number of male ...
In the metropolitan Jails, the proportion of recommittals to the number of ..."
3. Hansard's Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard (1850)
"He found that the recommittals were in several cases above one-third of the whole
punishments, and he would read the numbers of them to the House. ..."
4. Annual Report by Correctional Association of New York (1870)
"To obtain a practical test of the merits of a penal system in any particular jail
by a reference to the increase or diminution in the number of recommittals ..."
5. Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science by National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) (1860)
"There is, however, a gradual increase of recommittals in the case of felony
according to the criminality. The suspected felon who is acquitted is the lowest ..."
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