define: recidivism
Recidivism (/ráµ»ËsÉªdáµ»vÉªzÉm/; from recidive and ism, from Latin recidÄ«vus recurring, from re- back and cadÅ I fall) is the act of a person repeating an undesirable behavior after they had either experienced negative consequences of that behavior, or had been trained to extinguish that behavior.