单词 | Recidivist |
释义 | 慣犯 A person who continually returns to criminal behaviour notwithstanding the imposition of punishment for crimes committed. Whilst it is always important for the sentencer to bear in mind the general principle that a defendant is being sentenced for the offence which has brought him before the court and not for previous offences for which he has already served the penalty, the constant repetition of the defendant’s commission of crime itself increases the gravity of the offences, at least so far as sentence is concerned: HKSAR v Chan Pui Chi [1999] 3 HKC 848, 2 HKLRD 830. A defendant, with previous convictions of the same or a similar kind as the offence for which he is due to be sentenced, may receive a longer sentence: HKSAR v Chan Pui Chi, supra. See also Deterrence; Habitual criminal. |
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