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Meanings of persistent offender in English

Russian
рецидивист
Spanish
delincuente persistente

Person convicted of a new crime who was previously convicted of a crime(s)

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рецидивист
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Examples for "recidivist"
Examples for "recidivist"
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She is a recidivist offender against decency, honesty, progressive thought and morality.
News.com.au
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Why, oh why, are so many recidivist criminals given suspended sentences?
The Irish Times
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The country's worst recidivist drunk driver has appears in court again.
Radio NZ
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Mr Cullen said it was hard to stop recidivist offenders.
Radio NZ
5
Photo: Photosport A bully and recidivist offender, Warner has appalled crowds the world over.
Radio NZ
1
He might become an habitual offender from sheer stupidity, but in doing so, he injured no one but himself.
Kitchener's Mob: Adventures of an American in the British Army
2
Prison statistics show that habitual offenders do not commit suicide.
Monsieur Lecoq, v. 1
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The habitual offenders should be shut down, he said.
The Guardian
4
Among those who belong to the class of habitual offenders, a large proportion are intellectually deficient.
The History of Tasmania , Volume II
5
But the State must do something more than this; for many young habitual offenders are too young for emigration.
London's Underworld
1
The career criminal Arthur Taylor has been released from prison this morning.
Radio NZ
2
Virginia Vidaura-EnvoyCorps trainer, later career criminal and sometime political activist.
Woken furies
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The career criminal Arthur Taylor has just been released from prison.
Radio NZ
4
She wasn't a career criminal, and the charges weren't serious.
Four to score
5
Charles Manson was a career criminal of the lowest order.
Exit strategy
Usage of persistent offender in English
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A persistent offender even of fairly trivial wrongdoing is put to death without compunction.
The Girl in the Golden Atom
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Like persistent offenders whose patterns of offence haven't been obvious to investigators.'
Another life
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Take the precise arrangements for banishing persistent offenders from the web.
Wired
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In the case of persistent offenders, the EU could ban them from its airports.
Reuters
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Ifab have said that the experiment was designed to take disciplinary action against persistent offenders.
The Irish Times
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At present, the police can only prosecute persistent offenders.
The Guardian
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ISPs will also be encouraged to use bandwidth reduction and protocol blocking to stymie persistent offenders.
BBC
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Persistent offenders could be banned from European airports.
Reuters
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In the case of persistent offenders, the EU has the right to ban airlines from its airports.
Reuters
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The orders will allow persistent offenders to be banned from associating in particular areas or with particular people.
The Irish Times
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The reasons, according to gardaí, include greater crime prevention and the fact that many persistent offenders are in prison.
The Irish Times
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I suppose you know that women, particularly a certain brand of society women, are the worst and most persistent offenders.
The Poisoned Pen
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There are fines up to £5,000 for persistent offenders.
BBC
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Persistent offenders as young as 12 in Britain can be locked up on remand as part of an attempt to tackle youth crime.
The Irish Times
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LONDON - The British Home Office yesterday unveiled proposals that would empower courts to move quickly against stalkers, with long prison terms for persistent offenders.
The Irish Times
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This structured week-long course for so-called "joyriders" was an option offered to persistent offenders by local magistrates, the alternative being a custodial sentence.
The Irish Times
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