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  • noun nonstandard A repeat offender - someone who reoffends, who commits a crime on more than one occasion.

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Examples

  • The reoffender rate would drop as noone would want to spend time in such a place too often.

    Capital punishment and judicial power Deft 2008

  • Rachel from north London: Rape victim of foreign reoffender to speak out?

    Rape victim of foreign reoffender to speak out? Rachel 2006

  • Defence barrister Andrew Boe told the court his client had taken steps to get help and that a psychological assessment had determined he was a low-risk reoffender.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

  • Pope Benedict XVISo in one case a child rapist escaped judgment and became an enabled reoffender because he was too young.

    Slate Magazine Christopher Hitchens 2010

  • Both the hormonally-charged children and the perverted adults are branded as sex offenders on the same sex offender databases, and their images are spread across the internet for the rest of their lives, despite obvious differences in the situations as well as studies showing that the reoffender rate of juvenile sex offenders is only 10 percent.

    Sex Offender Issues 2009

  • The judge who sentenced Griffin seems to agree, but said he was bound by the law to give the reoffender the mandatory minimum.

    NBC Miami - Top Stories 2009

  • The judge through the book at Mark Anthony Griffin because he was a "prison releasee reoffender," a weird way of saying he had been in jail before.

    NBC Miami - Top Stories 2009

  • prisoner 6. row: left: Example: political jew, reoffender, penal camp middle: special campaign Wehrmacht ?

    ETHNICITY, SEXUALITY, AND NATIONALISM » Sociological Images 2009

  • prisoner 6. row: left: Example: political jew, reoffender, penal camp middle: special campaign Wehrmacht ?

    ETHNICITY, SEXUALITY, AND NATIONALISM » Sociological Images 2009

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