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Career criminal

Career criminal refers to a person who has a past record of multiple arrests or convictions for serious crimes or who has an unusually large number of arrests or convictions for crimes of varying degrees of seriousness. It is also called professional criminal. It is a term used in prosecutorial and law enforcement.

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