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Definition of Habitual criminal

1. Noun. Someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior).

Lexicographical Neighbors of Habitual Criminal

Literary usage of Habitual criminal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Crime and Criminals: Being the Jurisprudence of Crime, Medical, Biological by Charles Arthur Mercier (1919)
"Hence by this mode of classification we form two primary classes of criminals, the habitual criminal and the occasional criminal. habitual criminals are of ..."

2. Penal Law and the Code of Criminal Procedure of the State of New York by New York (State), John T. Fitzpatrick (1918)
"habitual criminalS. SECTION 1020. When a person may be adjudged an habitual criminal. 1021. Person of habitual criminal subject to supervision. 1022. ..."

3. The Science of Penology: The Defense of Society Against Crime by Henry Martyn Boies (1901)
"THE INSTINCTIVE AND habitual criminal. Proportion of Recidivists — The most Dangerous and least Controlled Category—The Reprobates—The Instinctive Criminal ..."

4. Criminology by Maurice Parmelee (1918)
"By habitual criminal is ordinarily meant a person who commits criminal ... But in many cases the habitual criminal commits many different kinds of crime. ..."

5. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1912)
"CRIMINAL LAW (§ 163*)—FORMER JEOPARDY—PUNISHING habitual criminal. 3. A former convict is not placed twice in jeopardy by bringing him after conviction ..."

6. Readings on American State Government by Paul Samuel Reinsch (1911)
"The habitual-criminal act failed in very many instances to solve the problem ... The strange and unexplained feature of the habitual-criminal act was that ..."

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