Meanings of habitual offender in anglès

He might become an habitual offender from sheer stupidity, but in doing so, he injured no one but himself.

Prison statistics show that habitual offenders do not commit suicide.

The habitual offenders should be shut down, he said.

Among those who belong to the class of habitual offenders, a large proportion are intellectually deficient.

But the State must do something more than this; for many young habitual offenders are too young for emigration.

Habitual offender from way back.

I repeat that philanthropy cannot attempt to deal with the habitual offenders, either in the days of their boyhood or in their early manhood.

Gentle, sympathetic, generous, his universal kindliness had yet one curious exception: his attitude towards habitual offenders against the law was one of almost ferocious vindictiveness.

Hardened habitual offenders, and especially professional criminals, should, therefore, be sentenced upon indeterminate sentences, terminable only when adequate evidence of their reformation has been secured.

What habitual offenders have been all Presidents of the Council, all Secretaries of State, all First Lords of Trade, all Attorneys and all Solicitors General!