recidivist

[ri-si-duhv-ist]

noun

1. a person who returns to a previous behavior, especially by committing a subsequent crime after being punished for a previous one; someone who engages in recidivism.

Example Sentences

They echoed Roberts’ argument that things have changed in the South, and the age-old refrain of Supreme Court racial recidivists: Surely, these special protections must stop sometime.

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Overall numbers on recidivist crimes are hard to establish because the Russian government restricts the release of any public information that puts the war in a bad light.

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The court ordered Navalny to serve the new term in a “special regime” penal colony, where men given life sentences or “especially dangerous recidivists” are sent.

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Incidents this year “fit the pattern of recidivist behavior,” and there’s a chance that those convicts would have committed crimes again upon release, even if they hadn’t been recruited by Wagner, the expert said.

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Boteler said, “If we can catch them early, maybe we can stop them from becoming recidivists.”

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