1. (noun) someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior)

• habitual criminal
• repeater

2. (noun) someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior

• backslider
• reversionist

1. (noun) someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior)

• criminal
• crook
• felon
• malefactor
• outlaw

2. (noun) someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior

• offender
• wrongdoer

1. (noun) someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior)

• double
• duplicate
• reduplicate
• repeat
• replicate
• recidivism

2. (noun) someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior

• backslide
• lapse
• recidivism