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recidivist|rɪˈsɪdɪvɪst|
[ad. mod.F. récidiviste, f. récidiver: see recidive v. and -ist.]
a. One who relapses; esp. one who habitually relapses into crime.
1880Cobbold in Lond. Med. Record May 172 Of the 82 males, 61 were cases of relapse; of the 28 women, 10 were recidivists. 1882Pall Mall G. 16 Dec. 3 The convicts..are to be transported to Madagascar and their places taken by the recidivists of France. 1895tr. Ferri's Crim. Sociol. 255 The hardened recidivists, who ought to be considered as degenerate criminals, or criminals by profession. 1931Sun (Baltimore) 20 Jan. 10/2 This creates a body of recidivists who are being constantly released and as constantly returned. 1964Listener 26 Mar. 507/1 The Reader in criminology at Oxford has given me the following definition of a recidivist: A recidivist is the offender who neither mends his ways spontaneously nor learns to avoid detection, and who is neither deterred by the experience of conviction nor reformed by any of the methods in the courts' repertoire. 1981W. Ebersohn Divide Night ii. 26 Old recidivists who felt at home only in jail and would be back again and again.
fig.1896Life A. J. Gordon 302 The human heart is, in his opinion, an incorrigible recidivist.
b. attrib. or as adj.
1920Contemp. Rev. Nov. 684 It is the source of depraved, unchastened, even of recidivist, tendencies, as well as of those which point towards a wider and more perfect life. 1931J. S. Huxley What dare I Think? iii. 88 Sterilization has been suggested, but this seems disproportionate save in recidivist cases of philoprogenitiveness which seem otherwise incurable. 1950Chambers's Jrnl. 230/1 Often..he had the opportunity of seeing the overcrowded masses of recidivist (frequent offender) prisoners, many of them unprepossessing and hardened-looking roughs, with whom he was glad he had not to mix. 1962Lancet 15 Dec. 1278/1 My work as a probation officer among recidivist alcoholics in Pentonville Prison. |