NOUN
- someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior)
How To Use habitual criminal In A Sentence
- The new law will ensure that habitual criminals receive tougher punishments than first-time offenders.
- Statistics show that if these young men and women go to jail, the majority will become habitual criminals. THE ESSENTIAL DRUCKER
- Negative transformation leads to repeated crimes and eventually, the actor becomes a habitual criminal.
- The new law will ensure that habitual criminals receive tougher punishments than first-time offenders.
- James said, "Thomas Reed is a habitual criminal, a self-confessed member of the Guild of Thieves-" "Wait a minute, lord! SHADOW OF A DARK QUEEN: BOOK ONE OF THE SERPENTWAR SAGA
- To these numerical data may be added others of a qualificative character, showing that precocity is most frequent in respect of the natural crimes and offences which are usually observed amongst born and habitual criminals. Criminal Sociology
- Even though the charges themselves are not that serious, under the habitual criminal statute, he could get a major sentence, again, if he is convicted.
- Judges - because habitual criminals cannot stay out of jail? The Sun
- That habitual criminal has been locked away.
- Judges - because habitual criminals cannot stay out of jail? The Sun
