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habitual criminal

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Noun1.habitual criminal - someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior)
recidivist, repeater
criminal, crook, felon, malefactor, outlaw - someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
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DeMar asserted: "If my actions have spared only one family from the distress and trauma that this habitual criminal [Billings] has caused hundreds of others, then I have served my civic duty and taken one evil creature off of our streets, something that our impotent criminal justice system had failed to do, despite some thirty-odd arrests, plea bargains and suspended sentences.
Defending the home: the plight of Wilmette, Illinois, homeowner Hale ... by Lee, Robert W. / The New American
If a judge grants prosecutors' request to have him declared a habitual criminal, Mack would face a maximum sentence of life in prison without parole.
BRIEFLY POLICE SEEK FAMILY OF SLAIN MAN, 26 by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Although understaffing made Viernstein's wildest dreams unrealizable, the Nazi Sterilization Law of July 1933 and the Law Against Dangerous Habitual Criminals of November 1933 were consistent with his and many other criminal-biologists' thinking.
Inventing the Criminal: A History of German Criminology, 1880-1945. ... by Johnson, Eric A. / Journal of Social History
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