The word "recidivists" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to someone who habitually returns to a previous undesirable state or undesirable behavior. For example: "The recidivists in this prison are difficult to rehabilitate."
Their fellow prisoners will be a mixture of first-time offenders and seasoned recidivists, convicted for offences ranging from petty theft to murder.
The SEC noted decades of precedent, and asserted that the settlement "reflects the scope of relief that would be obtained after a successful trial".The SEC then released a letter from its chairman, Mary Schapiro, asking Congress for the right to inflict heavier penalties on recidivists, a barely veiled reference to Citi and its like.
It also says that it is helping everyone involved: the shoplifters who avoid the legal system and are, thinks CEC, rehabilitated; the stores which prevent the problem of recidivists; and the criminal justice system which doesn't get clogged up with petty cases.
Credit-card companies use the software to spot recidivists applying for new cards under modified names.
Many shops now also insist on identification checks, so that recidivists can be more easily tracked.A delicate balance is needed.
All offenders, not just recidivists, will face fines of up to 8% of annual sales for abuse of market dominance, and 10% in the case of collusion.
For law enforcers trying to contain the problem by sharing descriptions of known recidivists, it became imperative to answer one question: what is it that identifies someone as a particular person?This question has long troubled humanity, of course, and it is explored in all its facets in a new exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London.
Stalkers, like sex offenders, are recidivists.
Known recidivists were believed to be more dangerous and were accordingly punished more severely.
Though the percentage of recidivists runs high for all offenders, it is greatest among those convicted of such minor charges as vagrancy, drunkenness, prostitution, and disturbing the peace.
It centres on the recidivists and down and outs of a Canadian trailer park, whose daily struggles include scraping enough money together to buy smokes, repelling cats who piss on their weed plants and trying not to pass out drunk in the street.
