Article 65 Federal Criminal Code
BOOK ONE · TITLE THREE. Application of Sanctions · CHAPTER IV. Application of sanctions in case of concurrence, continued crime, complicity, recidivism and avoidable error
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 13 March 2026
The recidivism referred to in Article 20 shall be taken into account for the judicial individualization of the penalty, as well as for the granting or not of the benefits or of the penal substitutes that the law provides for.
In the event that the person charged with any intentional offense qualified by the law as serious or that merits ex officio pretrial detention, as applicable, is a recidivist for offenses of said nature, the sanction applicable for the new offense committed shall be increased by two thirds and by up to an equal amount more than the maximum penalty provided for it, without exceeding the maximum indicated in Title Second of Book First.