Meanings of habitual criminal in English

But I think he lacks the cleverness requisite for a habitual criminal.

He believed he possessed no more conscience than any other habitual criminal.

A shoplifter rarely becomes a habitual criminal until after she passes the age of twenty-five.

The next time meant life as an habitual criminal.

The young single offender, if not properly handled, may be easily transformed into an habitual criminal.

If Fletcher is a habitual criminal, we know from his five-year sentence he's no rapist or murderer.

The habitual criminal, who alternates between periods of crime and periods of imprisonment, should be an unknown phenomenon.

The habitual criminal, as he will very soon tell you if you possess his confidence absolutely, declines to work.

I saw there also a couple without children; the man had the slouch and hang-dog look of an habitual criminal.

Before jumping at this conclusion it must not be forgotten that there is such a person as the habitual criminal.

You are an habitual criminal, who accepts arrest as an occupational hazard, and presumably accepts imprisonment in the same casual manner.

The habitual criminal, who originally was a normal person, can be, at least in the early part of his career, fully reformed.

Now, in this franker intimacy of self-communion he found himself instituting a comparison between his own brand of courage and that of the habitual criminal.

The degenerative psychoses, on the other hand, develop upon the well-characterized degenerative soil of the habitual criminal, and are products of predisposition plus environmental influence.

The habitual criminal who suffers from a degenerative psychosis, unless he is in a stupor, is constantly on the alert for a chance to escape.

A YOUNG " habitual criminal" who stole cash from an elderly man has been given a 10-year sentence, with four suspended, for his latest offences.