evidence: Almost half of offenders released from prison in 2018 re-offended within a year according to new figures from the Central Statistics Office. [...] One out of every five sex offenders released in 2015 had reoffended by 2018, for burglars the three year recidivism rate was higher with four out of five of them reoffending. The figures also show that while more men are sent to prison, women were more likely to reoffend within three years of release. 66% of women committed more crime between 2015 and 2018 as opposed to 61% of men.