repeat offender

English

Noun

repeat offender (plural repeat offenders)

1. A person who has previously offended against the law, often someone who may be deemed incorrigible.

   Synonyms: recidivist, reoffender, career criminal

2. One who performs a specific (often undesirable) action on multiple occasions.
   • 2011, Jeff Reid, Cat-Dependent No More, →ISBN:

     At the risk of being branded a repeat offender. I must admit that this chapter is a reprise, in miniature, of an earlier book of mine with the same title.

Derived terms

• repeat offend

Translations

repeat offender — see also recidivist

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 慣犯／惯犯 (zh) (guànfàn)

• Czech: recidivista (cs) m
• Dutch: recidivist (nl) m, recidiviste f, draaideurcrimineel (nl)
• Finnish: uusintarikollinen
• French: récidiviste (fr) m or f
• German: Mehrfachtäter (de) m, Mehrfachtäterin f, Wiederholungstäter (de) m, Wiederholungstäterin (de) f
• Indonesian: residivis (id) c, bramacorah (id) c, penjahat kambuhan (id) c
• Macedonian: рецидиви́ст m (recidivíst), рецидиви́стка f (recidivístka)
• Polish: recydywista (pl) m, recydywistka (pl) f
• Portuguese: reincidente m or f
• Russian: рецидиви́ст (ru) m (recidivíst), рецидиви́стка (ru) f (recidivístka)
• Spanish: reincidente (es) m or f
• Swedish: återfallsförbrytare (sv) c, recidivist c

See also

• recidivism
• three strikes and you're out
• three-strikes law
• zero tolerance