repeat offender

repeat offender (plural repeat offenders)

1. A person who has previously offended against the law, often someone who may be deemed incorrigible.
2. One who performs a specific (often undesirable) action on multiple occasions.
   • 2011, Jeff Reid, Cat-Dependent No More, →ISBN:

     At the risk of being branded a repeat offender. I must admit that this chapter is a reprise, in miniature, of an earlier book of mine with the same title.

• recidivist
• (nonstandard) reoffender

• repeat offend