Recidivists
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Broader term:Related term:Narrower term:Used for:- Chronic offenders
- Habitual criminals
- Habitual offenders
- Offenders, Chronic
- Offenders, Habitual
- Offenders, Repeat
- Offenders, Serial
- Repeaters (Crime)
- Repeat offenders
- Serial offenders
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The Law and Practice Relating to Habitual Criminals (typescript of University of London doctoral dissertation; 1949), by Norval Morris (PDF at LSE; 254 MB)- The Prevention of Repeated Crime (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press; Chicago: Callaghan and Co., 1943), by John Barker Waite (PDF with commentary at Michigan)
- The Law and Practice Relating to Habitual Criminals (typescript of University of London doctoral dissertation; 1949), by Norval Morris (PDF at LSE; 254 MB)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Ex-convicts -- Biography- My Life Out of Prison (New York and London: M. Kennerley, 1915), by Donald Lowrie
- Les Miserables (dramatic adaptation of the novel), by Victor Hugo and Paul Meurice, trans. by Frank J. Morlock (HTML at Wayback Machine)
- Repaying Debts (New York: Council of State Governments Justice Center, c2007), by Rachel L. McLean and Michael D. Thompson (PDF with commentary at brennancenter.org)
- The New Scarlet Letter? Negotiating the U.S. Labor Market with a Criminal Record (Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, c2014), by Steven Raphael (PDF with commentary at upjohn.org)
- Room 13 (London: J. Long, c1924), by Edgar Wallace (Gutenberg text)
- The House With the Blue Door (c1942), by Hulbert Footner (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- Great Expectations (3 volumes; London: Chapman and Hall, 1861), by Charles Dickens
- Great Expectations (Mobile, AL: S. H. Goetzel and Co., 1863), by Charles Dickens
- Great Expectations (1867 edition), by Charles Dickens (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Les Misérables (5 volumes; New York: T. Y. Crowell and Co., c1887), by Victor Hugo, trans. by Isabel Florence Hapgood (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Les Misérables (abridged edition, in French with commentary in English; New York: W. R. Jenkins Co., c1895), by Victor Hugo, ed. by A. de Rougemont (page images at HathiTrust)
- Les Misérables (The Wretched): A Novel (abridged translation, with anti-slavery passages removed: Richmond, VA: West and Johnson, 1863-1864), by Victor Hugo, ed. by F. A.
- Les Miserables: Abridged, With Introduction and Notes (main text in French, commentary in English; Boston and London: Ginn and Co., 1896), by Victor Hugo, ed. by Frederick C. de Sumichrast (page images at HathiTrust)
- Los Miserables (translated into Spanish, 5 illustrated volumes; Madrid: Gaspar y Roig, 1863), by Victor Hugo, trans. by Nemesio Fernández Cuesta (page images at HathiTrust)
- Inside Time (partial serial archives)
- Civil Disabilities of Convicted Felons: A State-by-State Survey (1996), by United States Office of the Pardon Attorney (page images at HathiTrust)
- Purged! How a Patchwork of Flawed and Inconsistent Voting Systems Could Deprive Millions of Americans of the Right to Vote (New York: American Civil Liberties Union, 2004), by Laleh Ispahani, contrib. by Nick Williams (PDF with commentary at aclu.org)
- My Life in Prison (New York and London: Mitchell Kennerley, 1912), by Donald Lowrie
- My Life Out of Prison (New York and London: M. Kennerley, 1915), by Donald Lowrie
- Criminal Man, According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso, Briefly Summarised by His Daughter (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1911), by Gina Lombroso, contrib. by Cesare Lombroso (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
- The History of the Prison Psychoses (1912), by Paul H. Nitsche and Karl Wilmanns, trans. by Francis Barnes and Bernard Glueck (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Imprisonment (New York: Brentano's, c1924), by Bernard Shaw (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Terrific Register: or, Record of Crimes, Judgments, Providences and Calamities (2 volumes; London: Sherwood, Jones, and Co.; Edinburgh: Hunter, 1825) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Criminal Sociology, by Enrico Ferri (Gutenberg text)
- Retributive Justice (1882), by Francis Wharton (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Right Way to Do Wrong: An Exposé of Successful Criminals (Boston: H. Houdini, 1906), by Harry Houdini (page images at HathiTrust)
- Civilisation, Its Cause and Cure; and Other Essays (newly enlarged and complete edition; London: G. Allen and Unwin, 1921), by Edward Carpenter
- A Book of Remarkable Criminals, by H. B. Irving (Gutenberg text)
- A Book of Scoundrels, by Charles Whibley (Gutenberg text)
- She Stands Accused, by Victor MacClure (HTML at Virginia)
- We Who Are About to Die: Prison As Seen by a Condemned Man (New York and London: C. Scribner's Sons, 1935), by David Lamson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Oliver Twist: A Serio-Comic Burletta, in Four Acts (French's Standard Drama #228; New York: S. French, ca. 1864), by George Almar, contrib. by Charles Dickens
- Israel Rank; The Autobiography of a Criminal (London: Chatto and Windus, 1907), by Roy Horniman (page images at HathiTrust)
- Rogues and Vagabonds (new edition; London: Chatto and Windus, 1892), by George R. Sims (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Something Doing (published as by "Varick Vanardy"; New York: The Macaulay Co., c1919), by Frederic Van Rensselaer Dey, illust. by George W. Gage (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Amateur Cracksman, by E. W. Hornung (Gutenberg text and audio reading)
- Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler (in German; Berlin: Ullstein, c1920), by Norbert Jacques (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- The Groote Park Murder (Toronto: T. Allen, c1923), by Freeman Wills Crofts (multiple formats at archive.org)
- McAllister and His Double (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1905), by Arthur Train, illust. by F. C. Yohn and Alonzo Kimball (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens (HTML at Bibliomania)
- R. Holmes and Co.: Being the Remarkable Adventures of Raffles Holmes, Esq., Detective and Amateur Cracksman by Birth, by John Kendrick Bangs (Gutenberg text)
- The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, by Daniel Defoe (multiple editions)
- The Day of Days: An Extravaganza, by Louis Joseph Vance, illust. by Arthur William Brown (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Christmas Holiday (c1939), by W. Somerset Maugham (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- Memoirs of Vidocq, Principal Agent of the French Police until 1827 (Philadelphia: E. L. Carey and A. Hart; Baltimore: Carey, Hart and Co., 1834), by Eugène François Vidocq (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Memoirs of Vidocq, the Head Chief of the French Police: An Autobiography (Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Bros., n.d.), by Eugène François Vidocq, illust. by George Cruikshank (page images at HathiTrust)
- Vidocq, the French Police Spy (New York: G. Routledge and Sons, n.d.), by Eugène François Vidocq (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Newgate Calendar, ed. by Donal O'Danachair (HTML at Ex-Classics)
- Lives and Exploits of the Most Noted Highwaymen, Robbers, and Murderers, of All Nations: Drawn From the Most Authentic Sources and Brought Down to the Present Time (Hartford: E. Strong, 1836), by Charles Whitehead (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Ordinary of Newgate's Accounts (1690s-1770s) (partial serial archives)
- The Story of Crime: From the Cradle to the Grave (London: T. Werner Laurie, ca. 1908), by Hargrave Lee Adam
- Tyburn Tree: Its History and Annals (London: Brown, Langham and Co., ca. 1908), by Alfred Marks (multiple formats at archive.org)
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