NOUN
- someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior)
How To Use habitual criminal In A Sentence
- 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.