A study of the recidivists, those who return for second and third offences, in one institution, disclosed that a large majority had a subnormal temperature and an increased heart and breathing rate.
"The Glands Regulating Personality"
Louis Berman, M.D.
On the other hand, we must not forget that these individuals fully realize that once they have been sent to an insane asylum, they are protected from punishment by law for all future time and they are ever ready to utilize this knowledge, as has been my experience with quite a number of recidivists, who somehow never get into an insane asylum until they are in the hands of the law.
"Studies in Forensic Psychiatry"
Bernard Glueck
Such is the progress of hundreds whom statisticians love to call "recidivists."
"London's Underworld"
Thomas Holmes