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habitual criminal

NOUN
  1. someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior)

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  • That habitual criminal has been locked away.
  • Some of them are habitual criminals who accept arrest as an occupational hazard. Times, Sunday Times
  • He is a habitual criminal.
  • Statistics show that if these young men and women go to jail, the majority will become habitual criminals. THE ESSENTIAL DRUCKER
  • France had found a surefire way to identify its habitual criminals. FINGERPRINTS: Murder and the Race to Uncover the Science of Identity
  • They are as a rule persons of previous good behaviour, sanguine or nervous by temperament, of excessive sensibility, unlike born or habitual criminals, and they are often of a neurotic or epileptoid temperament, of which their crimes may be, strictly speaking, an unrecognised consequence. Criminal Sociology
  • France had found a surefire way to identify its habitual criminals. FINGERPRINTS: Murder and the Race to Uncover the Science of Identity
  • Some of them are habitual criminals who accept arrest as an occupational hazard. Times, Sunday Times
  • Judges - because habitual criminals cannot stay out of jail? The Sun
  • The new law will ensure that habitual criminals receive tougher punishments than first-time offenders.
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