| 释义 |
reconˈvict, v.
[re- 5 a.]
trans. To convict again. Hence reconˈvicted ppl. a.
1884Contemp. Rev. July 73 note, An old offender was re-convicted for a violent assault upon a woman. 1891H. Matthews in Law Times XCII. 96/2 The earning of marks..will extend to reconvicted licence-holders serving the remanets of former sentences.
So reconˈviction.
1892Daily News 2 Dec. 6/6 Were it the rule..that a longer sentence was to be expected at each reconviction, crime would at once largely diminish. 1909Rep. Commissioners of Prisons i. 15 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 4847) XLV. 133 The highest proportion of re-convictions is in this class no less than 40 per cent. 1968Economist 3 Feb. 16/2 Reconvictions bring those under suspended sentences into prison after all. 1976Howard Jrnl. XV. i. 7 Striking variations in reconviction rates. |