Abstract
This study attempts to concentrate a considerable amount of inhomogeneous findings into one whole. It contains information on criminal recidivism accessible both in Czech and foreign literature.
Furthermore it contains data on the scope and development of recedivism compiled from statistics on criminality in the Czech Republic, alongside the results of their own research of imprisoned Czech recidivsts, including comparison of the results gained with the results of all authors of known research of criminal recidivists conducted over the past approx. 50 years in the territory of the Czech Republic.